Quotes About Mercy

Murderers — serving life sentences — were caring for their dying fellow inmates. Washing their bed-sore covered bodies, changing their diapers, holding their hands while they took their last breath. It was the other side of death, not the one at the end of a sudden muzzle flash, but the slow and wrenching kind, leaving plenty of time for hard reflection.

To understand everything is to forgive.

Sometimes it ain't the drunk or the sinner who needs a shovel across the rear, it's the ones who could quote you chapter and verse about grace, but don't hand it out.

That boy. He does try me. I love him because he's mine. But I don't choose to forgive him because I love him or because he deserves it. I forgive him because I've been lost too. I've walked away too. I've been welcomed back too. None of us deserve to be forgiven. That's why it's called mercy." ~Mama Potts

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature, -- were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

Es perdonar al vencido el triunfo de la victoria.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

He didn't say a word about the fact that her Vespa was nowhere in sight. You know what this means, right? he asked. You're at my mercy. He grinned and she sighed. One hundred thousand sperm and he'd been the fastest. -Chloe about Todd

If you turn into a hideous monster and I am sent to slay you, I will remember this and make it as painless as I can, out of respect for you.

God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

Never forget what you were saved from.

God loves His people despite their sins and faults.

God is love—He is gracious and forgives.

There is no sin that Jesus cannot forgive.

A forgiven Christian is a forgiving Christian.

You are never far removed from God's love and mercy.

God's love and mercy are for all people.

Despite the sorrows of sin, you can count on God's faithfulness and forgiveness.

Jesus showed compassion for the hurting and the lost, and so should you.

God's love and His gift of salvation are given to you by God's grace—not earned by your works.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.