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Quotes About Mercy

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Dear God... Thank you for waking me up this morning to experience your everlasting love and never ending mercy and for my blessed day ahead!
~ Unknown
Signs of being blessed aren't power or material wealth. It is receiving the benefits of God's grace.
~ Unknown
Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
~ Anais Nin
John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.
~ Christopher Pike, Phantom
Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.
~ Gaston Leroux
Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one's mindset can be the wellspring of tolerance, mercy, and compassion.
~ Brent Green
My belief that everyone is a person, no matter what they've done, and that taking a human life is wrong.
~ Unknown
if the goddes can forgive her, can't we?""I think there's a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn't just because she's dead
~ P.C. Cast, Revealed
My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
~ Janine Turner
God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
~ Moliere
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
~ Saint Ambrose
God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.
~ Unknown
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
~ Richard Wagner
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
~ Mason Cooley
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
I have sinned against you, my Lord.
~ Jimmy Swaggart
God is a loving god.
~ Phil McGraw
I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.
~ Joyce Meyer
had anyone asked, I would have called Jamie Fraser a merciful man. He had been, once. But the years between now and then had been hard ones - and compassion was a soft emotion, easily eroded by circumstance, I had thought he still had his kindness, though; and felt a queer pain at the thought of its loss.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Was he again -- I had never forgotten that overheard phrase of Eve's -- being kind to be cruel? I only knew I had been given back enough to live on. And dimly, dimly, I began to see a new Last Act to crown my play.
~ Dodie Smith
At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.
~ Donald Miller
I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.
~ Donald Miller