Quotes About Mercy

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

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.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Happy New Year to everyone! Thank God for this day. As we continue this renewed journey of Hope and Faith on this Earth, may God in His infinite mercy grant us the comfort we need to strengthen our Hope and Faith in order to steady our balance, as we embark on this wonderful trip round the Sun once again. Mean while, let's celebrate our victory over last year. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.

Some of us seem to accept the fatalist position, the fatalist attitude, that God accorded to us a certain position and condition, and therefore there is no need trying to be otherwise. The moment you accept such an attitude, the moment you accept such an opinion, the moment you harbor such an idea, you hurl an insult at the great God who created you, because you question Him for His love, you question Him for His mercy.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

The spiritual director has the double task of holding up the demands of absolute responsibility and the promise of absolute forgiveness.

The lilacs grew with no care given them, and in the early summer they hung like bunches of mild mauve grapes from branches with leaves like dark green hearts, and the scent of them was so bold and sweet you could smell nothing else, a seasonal mercy.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger

Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.

he had found himself thinking that marriage was not merely an empty ritual. It was a plea for patience on the part of those involved, and for the mercy on the part of bystanders.

Yes, I'm a reader. Kill me. I could tell you I was raised in the library and the books were my only friends, but I didn't do that, did I? Because I have mercy. I'm neither a genius nor a kid destined to become a wizard. I'm just me. I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

And I know that's trite. Yes, I'm a reader. Kill me. I could tell you I was raised in the library and the books were my only friends, but I didn't do that, did I? Because I have mercy. I'm neither a genius nor a kid destined to become a wizard. I'm just me. I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

Club, tonight, man, don't you see?" "Please, Anita, coals to Newcastle! Mercy!" "Don't think twice about it, baby. It'll be outrageous, man. I will be your angel from hell. At

Like strangler figs choking a banyan, not an explorer, no imperialist, not one of us, in taking what we pleased—in colonizing as the saying is—has been a synonym for mercy.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

El perdón es el nombre cristiano de la venganza».

La misericordia, el amor al prójimo, el amor a los que nos aman, el amor a los que nos odian! —murmuró entre dientes—. Debemos ser misericordiosos incluso con nuestros enemigos. Este es el amor que Dios predicó entre los hombres, el amor que me aconsejaba la princesa María y que yo no sabía comprender. Es por esto por lo que siento morir. Si viviera, amaría a todos mis enemigos, pero ahora ya es demasiado tarde. ¡Ya lo sé!

Outrage... can (and often does) look like arrogance or offensiveness or, certainly, impropriety. But it can be what fuels love of justice and mercy.