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Quotes About Mercy

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?
~ Charles Kingsley
Love gives up the right to get even.
~ Christine Caine
God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.
~ David Platt
Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less.
~ Dillon Burroughs
God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.
~ E. M. Forster
We pardon as long as we love.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.
~ Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive." -Mother Teresa
~ Mother Teresa
To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.
~ Charles Spurgeon
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you.
~ Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.
~ Ilyas Kassam
As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.
~ Eric Wilson, A Shred of Truth
Everlasting love, unfailing kindness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
He didn't deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given.
~ V.S. Carnes
Forgiveness is accepting someone's faults with love and kindness.
~ Debasish Mridha
Do not judge the offender before you return back to him his beloved one and his small dreams.
~ jihad eltabey
The Saviour love is all I need.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Amazing love and grace that Christ shared for all to be saved.
~ Lailah Gfty Akita
Euthanasia is an excellent and a comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it. It
~ Bram Stoker
This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling certainty of something sinister approaching, something with no need to hurry, something that would not be so kind as to let him die. The fear was palpable, suffocating, irresistible.
~ Brandon Mull
Nobody in need of forgiveness deserves it," Konrad said. "Not one person. We all make foolish mistakes that we cannot fix. Though we may not deserve forgiveness, we all have a right to it. Just for having the courage to live in this difficult world, where fallible people do imperfect things. The supply of forgiveness is unlimited.
~ Brandon Mull
heart of mine has been shattered in a million pieces—but even during the worst of times, I had you. One of God's tender mercies. Love, Phoenix
~ Brenda Novak
Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one? Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could save the life of one of my friends I would gladly fall down on both knees. But I know you, Cluny, better than you know yourself. There is not a scrap of pity or mercy in your heart, only a burning desire for vengeance. Therefore, I will not kneel to one who is consumed by evil.
~ Brian Jacques
compassion, that
~ Brian McLaren