Quotes About Mercy

Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access to handcuffs, grills, dominion, torture chambers, and gallows. All these faiths, including those that have appeared in recent generations and continue to mesmerize adherents to this day, all arose to save us and all just as soon started to shed our blood.

Fred Rogers' spiritual answer to how we "treat bad people" is much more far-reaching than the psychology behind sublimation

There is one thing that evil cannot stand, and that's forgiveness.

Know this: You should judge every person by his merits. Even someone who seems completely wicked, you must search and find that little speck of good, for in that place, he is not wicked. By this you will raise him up, and help him return to God. And you must also do this for yourself, finding your own good points, one after the other, and raising yourself up. This is how melodies are made, note after note. REBBE NACHMAN OF BRESLOV

fastest way to win a kingdom is by being kind and gentle instead of using violence and cruelty. Do

compassion can be felt in the gut; mercy needs to be enacted with the body.

But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me." 26 He answered, "It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs." 27 She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." 28 Then Jesus answered her, "Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed instantly.

Jesus has to explain that dropping bombs is not the proper response to a lack of hospitality.

Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.

We must examine our own hearts and minds and be willing to identify our own unjust thoughts and behaviors toward others. By being open with this reality before God, by repenting and accepting God's acceptance and steadfast love expressed in mercy and forgiveness, we can learn how to be merciful to others.

We should not forget the principles of Christian mercy and justice: to welcome back those who are repentant and need our assistance, while encouraging the faithful to endure to the end.

'Unforgiven,' I think, is the best Western ever.

I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.

God the Father lives. He hears and answers our prayers in love. The Savior Jesus Christ, resurrected and glorious, lives and reaches out to us in mercy.

I'm all about preaching forgiveness and compassion.

I am a minister and I preach forgiveness all time.

I'm a minister, I preach forgiveness all the time.

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

I believe that one bad decision should not define a person.

Everyone deserves compassion.

Everyone deserves second chances.

A man who dies, no matter how terrible his crime was, must be brought to burial.

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.