Quotes About Mercy

See from His head, His hands, His feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down! Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

The great God, in a way of bounty, may often bestow upon us vastly beyond what our little services can ever pretend to have deserved, but He never punishes beyond our deserts.

Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together

Jesus, I am sorry.

It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.

Our heavenly Father is kind and gracious, and He is willing to forgive our mistakes instantly when we are honest about them. He even chooses to forget our sins. He does not keep a record of wrongs.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

There is one type of gambling which should always be encouraged. It is betting on goodness. When a person has wronged you, be good to him. If he adds insult to injury, double the bet. And keep on doubling it. You will surely win!

Lack of wisdom does not make a fool. A fool, in the truest sense, is the man who regards his own misfortunes or those of others as a source of doubt or criticism of the infinite mercy of the Gohonzon.-Josei Toda

The child tortures the fly because he has the power to do so, and had not yet learned how mercifully to kill.

Our business is not enemy making but enemy loving. Our business is not dividing the country into blue and red states, but being a people of one accord. Our business is not securing the power to rule, but doing justice, showing mercy, and walking humbly with our God.

hypothermia. It's all over before you know it. That is so much more humane than a long, lingering death, don't you think?" Coke was shivering, and his feet were

buried somewhere deep inside their souls. When God found them hiding in the garden, they were clutching clumps of leaves against their groins and blaming everyone but themselves for their failure. God's sovereign grace blossomed in that new-fallen garden for the same reason grace fills people's lives today. The untamed God gives undeserved mercy to unresponsive sinners. God shows grace, not due to any human deed or desire, but

that's not based on anything we have done, can do, or might do.17 It's not even a reward that God hands out to those who happen to choose him (Romans 9:16). It's God's wonderful acceptance of us not because we have

Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve, and mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve.

They deserve forgiveness. Everyone does.

Morninghall was not such an evil man after all. A baffling one, yes. A potentially violent one, yes. An arrogant, intimidating, enigmatic, moody one, yes. But not evil. No man who took pity on a suffering child was evil.

You can take God's viewpoint and call sin sin and still love the sinner.

I like to think about the biblical story of the woman at the well and how out of order her life was. Jesus pointed out she'd had five husbands and was living with a sixth. But Jesus chose her to be the one who would take the good news of the Messiah's arrival to her village.

If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.