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Quotes About Mercy

Though Jesus was in torture on the cross, He thought of praying for His persecutors, of caring for His mother, of securing the good thief's salvation.
~ Thomas Dubay
I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message.
~ Charlize Theron
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
~ John Harrigan
I always forgive, but I never forget.
~ Randy Moss
Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.
~ Rose Byrne
Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Fin'c? trebuie s? È™tii, st?pâne, c? Dumnezeu este un domn; asta va s? zic? nobleÈ›ea: s? ierÈ›i!
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
~ ?nsan?z affet.
Ciertamente el bien y la misericordia me seguirán todos los días de mi vida y en la casa del Señor moraré por largos días.
~ Noah Gordon
Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He'd broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished.
~ Nora Roberts
You're damned if you can't forgive, Jude.
~ Clive Barker
Being willing to forgive is not the same as being weak.
~ Victoria Alexander
The Greeks shape bronze statues so real they seem to breathe, And carve cold marble until it almost comes to life. The Greeks compose great orations, and measure The heavens so well they can predict the rising of the stars. But you, Romans, remember your great arts; To govern the peoples with authority, To establish peace under the rule of law, To conquer the mighty, and show them mercy once they are conquered. -Virgil, Aeneid VI, 847-853
~ Virgil
But you, Roman, must remember that you have to guide the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to graft tradition onto peace, to shew mercy to the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.
~ Virgil
One mercifully hopes there are water nymphs in the Styx.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Being mad, he failed to take into account the scheming of irresponsible politicians. Being mad, he believed that other governments would act in accordance with the principles of mercy and common sense.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
There's no mercy in war. People live and people die. That's all there is to it
~ Larry Foulke
When we offer forgiveness to those who have no excuse—and for things most of the world would consider unforgivable—we become most like Jesus.
~ Larry Osborne
There was no getting around it. Whether it was a chronic deceiver like Jacob, a horn-dog like Samson, a never-believe-God-the-first-time warrior like Gideon, or a zealous persecutor like the apostle Paul, God had a way of blessing and using the wrong people.
~ Larry Osborne
When we offer forgiveness to those who have no excuse—and for things most of the world would consider unforgivable—we become most like Jesus. Remember, he died for sins he never committed to forgive people who had no right to be forgiven.
~ Larry Osborne
Apiádate, Dios mío -le ruego a una divinidad en la que nunca he creído ni creo-. No me obligues a amar a quien no me ama. Mándame si quieres las otras Siete Plagas, pero de esa, y de este intolerable olor a mortecino que me envuelve, exonérame por caridad, amén
~ Laura Restrepo
The two condemned men kneeled at the water's edge, crying and pleading for mercy as the ships grew smaller and finally vanished over the horizon.
~ Laurence Bergreen
executioner placed the noose around the condemned man's neck, Elizabeth intervened to spare him.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Fatima Fatir as representative of Allâh's Jamal, saves humankind from Allâh's Jalal.
~ Laurence Galian