Quotes About Mercy

Nathuram's reply was: 'Please, see to it that mercy is not imposed on me. I want to show that through me, Gandhiji's non-violence is being hanged.' Taken aback by this reply, Ambedkar, who had never thought highly of Gandhiji's eccentric ideas, actually praised Godse.

Once," Balinda begins softly, "when I was in the emergency room with my mother they brought in a murderer who had been shot and was dying, right there in front of us. I watched as the nurse touched his face and reassured him and I could not believe they were being so nice to him." "What happened?" Jill asked. "My mother rose up, took my arm, gripped it as if she was a weight lifter and said, 'he was a beautiful baby once and his mother loved him'.

God does not forgive excuses; He only forgives sins.

True freedom only occurs when we break off the shackles of fear and embrace a culture of mercy and grace.

There is humanity even in the most wicked.

No one who truly understands grace will tell a person their sin is beyond it.

Like God's mercies are new every day, the scent of rain washes away what's old and begins fresh.

Thus, he is to show people that all their righteousness is as filthy rags and as reliable a leaning post as a spider's web; and that, counterintuitive and countercultural as it may be, true righteousness, mercy, and grace are to be found in the filthy and broken corpse of a man condemned as a criminal to hang on a cross. This is the preaching of law and gospel, and it carries with it transformative power.

The modern partisan expects neither law nor mercy from the enemy.

As long as I waste time defending myself I get nothing done and I am not truly Christian; I do not know the depths of the heart of Jesus. To forgive, really forgive, means convincing ourselves deep down that we merited the wrong done to us.

El perdón no es un sentimiento, es una decisión. Si usted quiere perdonar, el Señor le ayudará a hacerlo. He

There is a French expression: "Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner." To understand all is to forgive all.

It was my decision to spare you the pain of life.

But I must forgive him. Why? Because we are told to love our enemies. Besides, until I forgive him, (said Mordecai, tapping his black-robed stomach), I carry him here, within me. And that is a terrible thing.

Teach me to feel another's woe To hide the fault I see That mercy I to others shew That mercy shew to me.95 –1787

None of us deserve the forgiveness we've been given, either by people or by God. I have to forgive you.

I have filled him in to be unobtainable, disinterested, attractive and bored with my company. My ideal mate. Someone to endure, never to enjoy. I am totally at his mercy. I suffer through the silence, imagining that he is suffering my company. That I am merely an alternative for nothing better to do. I'm frightened of the power I have given him over me and of how he will almost certainly abuse it, merely by not being fully aware he has it.

Do not seek revenge and call it justice.

Yet, should our feeble efforts nought avail,   Should, after all, our best endeavours fail;   Still, let some mercy in your bosoms live,   And, if you can't applaud, at least forgive.

Lord restore thine image, hear my call: And though my hard heart scarce to thee can groan, Remember that thou once didst write in stone.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die... a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.