Quotes About Mercy

It is a remarkable feat to be able to see past the inhumanity of the behavior and recognize the humanity of the person committing the atrocious acts. This is not weakness. This is heroic strength, the noblest strength of the human spirit.

But just as we do not forgive for others, we also do not forgive for God.

Peace always comes to those who choose to forgive

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

This is also a story about what a good thing it is to forgive— a relief to the one who did the bad thing, and a great relief to the one who gets to forgive!

I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.

There is an oath upon her, he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her.

Aye, beg me for mercy, Sassenach. Ye shallna have it, though; not yet.

O verdadeiro perdão não é forçado - disse -, mas cai como o suave sereno do céu...

Without one word of direct explanation or apology, he had given me the message he intended. I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy, too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.

Call it fate," Claire had said, looking at him with a hawk's eye, the one that sees from far above, so far above, maybe, that what seems mercilessness is truly compassion. "Or call it bad luck. But it wasn't your fault. Or hers.

There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her." "And I," said a tall figure behind him, softly. Ian. Arch

That only by forgiveness could she forget - and that forgiveness was not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.

no matter how much a man may try to do what is right, the outcome may not be one that he either foresees or desires. And that's grounds for regret—sometimes verra great regret," he added more softly, "but not for everlasting guilt. For it is there we must throw ourselves on God's mercy and hope to receive it.

I don't want any dog to be put down.

Por favor, Señor, abre mi corazón y enséñame a perdonar. No soy lo suficientemente fuerte como para aniquilar mi odio: nos han hecho demasiado daño; mi odio es muy pesado y podría aplastarme. Toca mi corazón, Señor, y enséñame a perdonar.

Nuestro señor dice que dejemos de pedir milagros, —Segatashya continuó diciendo en la cinta—, porque sus vidas son milagros. Un verdadero milagro es un niño en el vientre; el amor de una madre es un milagro; un corazón misericordioso es un milagro. Sus vidas están llenas de milagros, pero ustedes están demasiado distraídos con las cosas materiales para verlos.

Fortunately Mercy was not so rare as it was beautiful, for it is universally true that "The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring." "Bushi no nasaké"—the tenderness of a warrior—had a sound which appealed at once to whatever was noble in us;

Hae tibi erunt artes - pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos" "These shall be your arts, to set forth the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud.

God doesn't forgive because we're worthy, but because he love us. And no sin is too great to be absolved--if contrition is sincere. It all begins with an earnest "I'm sorry

If God was willing to give people a second chance, why should we do any less?

God wouldn't be interested in the likes of him.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it's dark

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.