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Quotes About Mercy

We wonder if we serve better than someone else. We import a drive to achieve into our works of mercy.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
God is there. God's light is there. God's forgiveness is there. God's boundless love is there.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
The father is like me"? Do I want to be like the father? Do I want to be not just the one who is being forgiven, but also the one who forgives; not just the one who is being welcomed home, but also the one who welcomes home; not just the one who receives compassion, but the one who offers it as well?
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
What becomes visible here is that solitude molds selfrighteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness and so fully aware of God's even greater mercy that their life itself becomes ministry.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
If you have no money but only a love of freedom, only a prayer for mercy on your lips, you are debarred, returned to the slaughter-house, shunned as a leper.
~ Henry Miller
Ask God to make you like Christ so that, even when you are being persecuted, you can pray, "Father, forgive them.
~ Henry T. Blackaby
Selain berlaku adil, marilah kita juga bersifat pemaaf.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Like a savage tigress that tossing in the jungle overlays her own cubs, so the sea dashes even the mightiest whales against the rocks, and leaves them there side by side with the split wrecks of ships. No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
~ Herman Melville
Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
~ Saint Ambrose
I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think a further measure is how it treats those who deeply disappoint it.
~ Mark Goulston
One that society can't forgive, but I can.
~ Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
Be kind enough to love those who don't deserve your love.
~ Debasish Mridha
Like Jesus, forgive those who are hurting you because they don't know what they are doing.
~ Debasish Mridha
Love, kindness, compassion and forgiveness are divine.
~ Debasish Mridha
To strengthen the power of love, love those who do not deserve.
~ Debasish Mridha
Love and compassion are the creating and sustaining elements of humanity, without them humanity will be inhumane.
~ Debasish Mridha
If someone hurts you, to take the revenge, love him.
~ Debasish Mridha
When someone hurts you, don't hurt him back but hit him with your unconditional love.
~ Debasish Mridha
Because in truth, my love, if you have thought of me once then I have thought of you a thousand times. You have captured my heart. It is yours. I am at your mercy now
~ Kamand Kojouri
Until you can leave the matter of forgiveness to God, you will not have acquired true humility.
~ Colleen McCullough
Always be kind. Every one needs it. Practice forgiveness.
~ Debasish Mridha
I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God's love and mercy are for all people.
~ Jim George