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Quotes About Mercy

In whatever guise - our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death - the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love, and mercy is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom.
~ Lloyd Alexander
And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.
~ Rick Warren
that God was closer to the weak than to the mighty, to the poor than to the rich. Any beggar, any criminal, might be Christ. 'So the last will be first, and the first last.
~ Tom Holland
Yet there was, in this same exercise of clemency, more than a whiff of what made so many of his peers resent and detest him. Merciful he may have been – but mercy was properly the virtue of a master. Caesar felt no call to apologise for his dominance.
~ Tom Holland
Eddie asks, So what next? And Jesus, his eyes dark but laced with a hint of mercy, the thorn scars just barely visible at his hairline, says, Damned if I know.
~ Unknown
Humans are the only creatures that have the ability to forgive.
~ Unknown
Grace be with you" (or you all). (This phrase
~ Unknown
Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord." (Similar variations of this phrase occur four times in 1 Timothy 1:2; 2 Timothy 1:2; Titus 1:4; and 2 John 3.)
~ Unknown
Father, I thank You that this very day, You and the Lord Jesus are releasing grace, peace, and mercy into my life. Thank You that Your grace, Your love, and the communion of the Holy Spirit are mine today.
~ Unknown
God cannot be bound by a law, a moral code, a universal sense of justice, or a "deep magic from the dawn of time." God could have forgiven us of our sin however God wanted too—with or without the execution of his son.
~ Unknown
And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws. -Exodus 20:6
~ Unknown
I'm no preacher, but I do know that God doesn't strip away His love when we make mistakes.
~ Tracie Peterson
Doesn't do a body any good to withhold forgiveness. The devil is the only one who stands to gain anything
~ Tracie Peterson
God knows I've needed enough forgivin' in my life. I love you, and love sometimes comes in pain as well as joy.
~ Tracie Peterson
Mercy is always better than pride.
~ Unknown
Don't you realize it's the doing that often gets us into trouble? It's not the doing that makes God happy. It's not about what we've done...it's about what been done for us.
~ Tricia Goyer
Greetings, Queen of the RainWings!" Starflight said grandly. He swept his wings out and bowed low. "Ooooo," the queen said again. "We have come to you despite great peril, in a time of crisis, to throw ourselves upon your merciful —" "We need your help," Tsunami said.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
But without sin there can be no forgiveness.
~ Patrick O'Brian
You would see that even when God is most terrible, he is never cruel, the way men are.
~ Paul Bowles
I who have been at the mercy of the cider-press / have also been known to trifle / with the affections of a dryad in a sacred grove, / a judge's daughter and a between-maid to Lord Mountbatten / among others from beyond my clan
~ Paul Muldoon
Mark said, "It's simple, really. Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God.
~ Paul Theroux
IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD No
~ Pauline Réage
God always offers us a second chance in life.
~ Paulo Coelho
One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.
~ Paulo Coelho