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Quotes About Mercy

His mind was like the sea itself: troubled, and too deep for the bravest man's descent . . . And he was at the mercy of this sea, hanging there with darkness all around him.
~ James Baldwin
He was fond of saying that, since to be in prison was simply not to live, the death penalty was the only merciful verdict any jury could deliver.
~ James Baldwin
For a woman,' she said, 'I think a man is always a stranger. And there's something awful about being at the mercy of a stranger.
~ James Baldwin
Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
~ Laura Amy Schlitz
Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior, has suffered and paid for our sins and those of all the people we will ever meet. He has perfect understanding of the feelings, the suffering, the trials, and the needs of every individual.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
~ Horace Mann
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.
~ David Ebershoff
Chance and change are busy ever;Man decays, and ages move;But His mercy waneth never;God is wisdom, God is love.
~ John Bowring
It's hard to know what's right in this life, ' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.'"P459
~ Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark
We pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.
~ Compton Gage
With a humble heart, great grace abound.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
God softens harden heart into tender loving heart.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
God's forgiveness is greater than the devil's hate.
~ DeWayne Owens
At times we must forgive others even when they don't deserve it. We forgive them because we deserve it. Free yourself.
~ DeWayne Owens
Great mercy, great love.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
We are all foolish sinners saved only by grace & we can all use a little guidance sometimes.
~ Lesley Sears
We will not suffer If we do not cause others to suffer.
~ David V. Gaggin
... the Wisdom of God ... rules all things, because it is infinitely more powerful and more loving and, above all, more merciful than ours.
~ Father Jacques Philippe
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
~ David Brainerd
Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.
~ Jack Nicholson
There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.
~ Pope John Paul II
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.
~ Conrad Hilton