Quotes About Mercy

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.

If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.

May the good God pardon all good men.

Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

Aspire to a lower level of harm.

Every sin (past, present, and future) we have committed

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

the secret of God's grace—only the people who don't deserve it actually qualify for it.

I personally believe in the power of second chances.

Viewing my ministry as a mercy means I don't have to serve the Lord, I get to do it!

The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.

It is consoling that he who must judge us dwell in us to save us always from all of our miseries, and to pardon us.

I feel that if You found a soul weaker and littler than mine, which is impossible, You [35]would be pleased to grant it still greater favors, provided it abandoned itself with total confidence to Your Infinite Mercy.

No obstante, sigo teniendo la misma confianza audaz de llegar a ser una gran santa, pues no me apoyo en mis méritos -que no tengo ninguno-, sino en Aquel que es la Virtud y la Santidad mismas. Sólo él, contentándose con mis débiles esfuerzos, me elevará hasta él y, cubriéndome con sus méritos infinitos, me hará santa.