Quotes About Mercy

We are at the mercy of our own narrative impulses.

Maybe so, but it comes down to this: Do you want the guard to live with the guilt of killing a man? Or do you want to give him a chance to make peace with it?

God may forgive you if He chooses, but not I. Au revoir.

Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way.

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force

No matter what heroic acts I might perform, without God's grace I never could save myself.

Da uno che non sa ridere non ci si può aspettare misericordia.

All of Judaism's philosophy, ethics, ethos, learning, education, and hierarchy of values are saturated with a sense of, and heightened sensitivity to, rakhmones. God is often called the God of Mercy and Compassion: Adonai El Rakhum Ve-Khanum. The writings of the prophets are permeated with appeals for rakhmones, a divine attribute. (So, too, are the words of Jesus and the books of the New Testament.)

But stranger than any episode was the fact itself that neither the convict, his wife, nor his godfather for a moment considered him a criminal. He had merely gotten excited over cards and had stabbed his adversary with a knife. Why should a man who took his luck badly be kept forever from the sun? was their reiterated inquiry.

Naturally, in time, forceful and able men, admired administrators, having swallowed the initial fallacies and having been provisioned with tools and with public confidence, go on logically to the greatest destructive excesses, which prudence or mercy might previously have forbade.

I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever. I will praise You forever, because You have done it; And in the presence of Your saints I will wait on Your name, for it is good.

you of all have the most to forgive." "Ah, and if so," he responded, "I have the most blessing to receive after I've done so.

Suffer little children and come unto me.

Consider the work of Calvary. A perfect work, perfect in every respect, perfect in every aspect

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Because of Jesus' finished work of the cross, He will never be angry with you nor rebuke you even when you fail.

You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

Sorrow opens the gate to the Grace of God