Quotes About Mercy

I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don't even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he's worthy of even considering it, and I just don't see that happening.

I've bespelled this locket, for you; my own, my mate. The day has come when death forced us to part. You must know that I for you, forever, I shall wait. So until we meet again I hold your love safely within my heart. Remember, your oath was to temper strength with mercy. No matter how long apart we shall be, I hold you to that oath eternally... eternally...

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

But I shot the dog myself. I took him into the barn holding on to his collar. He knew something bad was going to happen, and he rolled over on to his back and showed me his puppy-pink tummy and widdled a bit, quite certain these devices for deflecting aggression would work. I tickled him behind his ear and said, 'Sorry, old son. I'm human-we're not like that.

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

The people of Mali] are seldom unjust, and have a greater horror of injustices than other people. Their sultan shows no mercy to anyone who is guilty of the least act of it. There is complete security in their country. Neither traveller nor inhabitant in it has anything to fear from robbers or men of violence. —Ibn Battuta, fourteenth-century traveler

we must let the Lord punish the wrongdoer. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

We truly live at the mercy of our ideas; this is never more true than with our ideas about God.

And grace is not opposed to effort; it is opposed to earning.

Faith is not opposed to knowledge; faith is opposed to sight. And grace is not opposed to effort; it is opposed to earning.

Jesus is the expression of the love of God for us, and in him we see the many ways God deals with people in mercy and grace.

Jesus went on to say to the woman, "Your sins are forgiven. Your faith has saved you. Go with peace in your heart." Here is God's rule in action.

We forgive someone of a wrong they have done us when we decide that we will not make them suffer for it in any way. This

God is continually, literally, second-by-second covering our sin under His Son's blood and forgiving us our sins. God cannot love us unless He forgives us and cannot forgive us without a commitment to love us.

The roads to salvation are many. Forgiveness is not the only path.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift.

I believe, the pope continued, that in some cases forgiveness can be dangerous. When we forgive evil in the world, we are giving evil permission to grow and spread. When we respond to an act of war with an act of mercy, we are encouraging or enemies to commit further acts of violence. There comes a time when we must do as Jesus did and forcefully throw over the money tables, shouting: 'This will not stand !' - Pope Innocent XIV (palmarians)

Cuando la causa es sagrada, el perdón de Dios está garantizado"

How mercifully can our Creator treat His creatures, even in those conditions in which they seemed to be overwhelmed in destruction! How can He sweeten the bitterest providences, and give us cause to praise Him for dungeons and prisons! What a table was here spread for me in a wilderness where I saw nothing at first but to perish for hunger!

How mercifully can our Creator treat His creatures, even in those conditions in which they seemed to be overwhelmed in destruction!

God ... had not only punished me less than my iniquity had deserved, but had so plentifully provided for me - this gave me great hopes that my repentance was accepted, and that God yet had mercy in store for me.

Stop remembering what God has forgotten

Forgiving is an act of mercy toward an offender. We are no longer controlled by angry feelings toward this person.