Quotes About Mercy

Psalm 103:8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning;

Theology must learn to see in the dark. Theology emerges from God's gracious act of mercy at our wrestling for meaning in our human condition.

How many of us would be granted pardon if our true hearts were known?

I wish he had let you all die

It turned out that she did know a little Greek. A few words that her father had picked up and taught her when he heard the army was coming. Mercy was one. Yes and please and what do you want? A father, teaching his daughter how to be a slave.

You promise mercy to spies so they will spill their story, then you kill them after. You beat men who mutiny. You coax heroes from their sulks. You keep spirits high at any cost.

The numbness now is merciful. A last few moments of it. Then, the fall.

the proud witch undone before the hero's sword, kneeling and begging for mercy. Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.

We are all at the mercy of the hostility of the service industry.

redemptive purpose in mind for it? Jonah was surprised at the way God looked at Nineveh.

Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you" (Luke 6:27).

The notion that the gods care how we treat one another would have been dismissed as patently absurd. . . . This was the moral climate in which Christianity taught that mercy is one of the primary virtues—that a merciful God requires humans to be merciful. . . . This was revolutionary stuff. Indeed, it was the cultural basis for the revitalization of the Roman world. (Stark, The Rise of Christianity, 209–15.)

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.

O merciful God, come to me in this place, this very place in my heart. I give this to you. I choose you over Eve. I choose your love and friendship and beauty. I give my aching and longing and vulnerable heart to you. Come, and heal me here. Sanctify me. Make me whole and holy in this very place.

We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us.

The Choice Spare him till he dies. Torment him till he lives.

Try to leave one alive… … but do not try too hard. (The Life-Taker)

life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.

In the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Luke, Jesus teaches the importance of forgiveness. He knows we're human and our natural tendency is to seek revenge, to strike back, to condemn those who hurt us, but this is wrong. We're supposed to forgive, always.

He prayed long and hard for justice and healing, but was a bit light on mercy.

God was always there. He sat beside us during the doctors' consultations, as we waited the long vigils outside the operating room, as we rejoiced in the miracle of a brief recovery, as we agonized when hope ebbed away, and the doctors confessed there was no longer anything they could do. They were helpless, and we were helpless, and in His way, God, standing by us in our hour of need, God in His infinite wisdom and mercy and loving kindness, God in all His omnipotence, was helpless too.

Satisfied, she calmly turned to Bull, who meekly knelt and sought her forgiveness