Quotes About Mercy

You know every wave is so different. It just depends on the ride, like when you come down and you don't make the wave and you get blown up and you just feel like so small, but also so alive, because you're at the mercy of this monster and its gotten hold of you and shaking you and rattling you.

Everyone deserves a second chance. That's just the way I am.

We cannot serve the Lord if we don't have a heart of forgiveness.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst.

In the harsh and violent Middle East surrounding us, there is no mercy for the weak. Only the strong survive!

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

I would say I have compassion.

The church must always show compassion, always.

One of women's greatest values is compassion.

God is compassion.

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Blessed are the merciful…" The fourth step is to be merciful. ¬ Mercy contains three components: 1. Forgiveness of others 2. Compassion for the suffering of others. 3. Purity of intent in action and in speech – never is one's primary intent to hurt others. Cruelty and selfishness will assuredly block the path of spiritual growth.

The Cross is the equivalent of the Ephesus stoning. To say that Jesus identifies himself with all victims is to say that he identifies himself not only with the adulterous woman or the Suffering Servant but also with the beggar of Ephesus. Jesus is this poor wretch of a beggar. ——————————————————

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. — Søren Kierkegaard

Understanding is forgiveness. - Sonnet XV

Beloved ones of God, you may belong to any race, cast, creed, or nation, still you are all impartially beloved by God. You may be a believer or an unbeliever in the supreme Being, but He cares not. His mercy and grace flow through all His powers, without distinction of friend or foe.

When you feed hungry people, you are showing mercy. The search for justice begins when you ask why the hungry are hungry.

Consequently, for Paul, self-righteous judgment of homosexuality is just as sinful as the homosexual behavior itself. That does not mean that Paul is disingenuous in his rejection of homosexual acts and all the other sinful activities mentioned in Romans 1:24–32; all the evils listed there remain evils (cf. also Rom. 6:1–23).25 But no one should presume to be above God's judgment; all of us stand in radical need of God's mercy.

To define the unborn child as a nonperson is to narrow the scope of moral concern, whereas Jesus calls upon us to widen it by showing mercy and actively intervening on behalf of the helpless. The Samaritan is a paradigm of love that goes beyond ordinary obligation and thus creates a neighbor relation where none existed before.

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.