Quotes About Mercy

The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.

Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature—but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end to their argument, we shall have none, not ever, until the end of all.

Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve. ...... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift

Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.

Have mercy, and forgive us, Father. We've saved our sacred images, but sacrificed Your image within our souls.

The word for mother, umm, is the root of the words for "source, nation, mercy, first principle, rich harvest; stupid, illiterate, parasite, weak of character, without opinion." In

I say that we are woundWith mercy round and roundAs if with air.

Be adored among men, God, three-numberéd form; Wring thy rebel, dogged in den, Man's malice, with wrecking and storm. Beyond saying sweet, past telling of tongue, Thou art lightning and love, I found it, a winter and warm; Father and fondler of heart thou hast wrung: Hast thy dark descending and most art merciful then.

When we were lying helpless on the floor, he saw us. When we were crying from breathing the toxic air of this world, he took pity on us. When we were helplessly wallowing about in the blood and water of our birth, crying out for food, for care, he saw us, nodded and reached toward us. When we could have been left to die, when we could have been sold as slaves, the Father said, "Mine!" He took us in his arms and claimed us.

Gerechtigkeit ist nur in der Hölle, im Himmel ist Gnade, und auf Erden ist das Kreuz.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Now then," Rahab said, "please swear to me by the Lord that you will show kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign that you will spare the lives of my family…and that you will save us from death." Othniel did not think that Ardon would speak, but he did. "Our lives for your lives if you don't tell what we are doing," Ardon said. "We will treat you kindly and faithfully when the Lord gives us the land.

There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy.

When we stop drawing a line between moral failings and evil, between the very things that make us human and those that take away our humanity—when we lose sight of mercy and mistake it for weakness, all is lost.

Don Ciccio went away muttering to himself, 'And there's the thanks you get! It's always the same, if they get better then it's Our Lady's mercy, but if they die it's all our fault.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

God has accepted your repentance. He gives his forgiveness freely.

I believed that was the point of real forgiveness: It was freely given. Grace-filled. Unsolicited.

to forgive is the first step toward redeeming the sin.

Lo que importa más nunca debe de estar a merced de lo que importa menos.

Tú, que no niegas cercanía a las más grandes pecadoras y que en los Cielos engrandeces al que sincero se arrepiente. Concede a esta noble alma que se abandonó una vez sin sospechar que se perdía el perdón que se ha merecido.

Mistrust all those in whom the desire to punish is imperative - Goethe