Quotes About Mercy

Oh, I think some parts of it are fine, conceded Davy. That story about Joseph now—it's bully. But if I'd been Joseph Iwouldn't have forgive the brothers. No, siree, Anne. I'd have cut all their heads off.

Aunt Elizabeth," she cried, "the kitten wasn't drowned after all—and I am going to keep it." "You're not," said Aunt Elizabeth. Emily looked her aunt in the face. Again she felt that odd sensation that had come when Aunt Elizabeth brought the scissors to cut her hair. "Aunt Elizabeth, this poor little kitten is cold and starving, and oh, so miserable. It has been suffering for hours. It shall not be drowned again.

The Christian always has reason to celebrate. When we fail, celebrate His grace. When we are blessed, celebrate His mercy. When others reject us, celebrate His love.

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain," he said. "You can't get even measures in business like this.

I don't deserve a second chance, but sometimes when someone doesn't, that's exactly when you need to give them one.

It occurred to her that she could use her mother's strength right now. Mama Elena was merciless, killing with a single blow. But then again not always. For Tita she had made an exception; she had been killing her a little at a time since she was a child, and she still hadn't quite finished her off.

Mother said she would always believe that Providence had sent the strange dog to watch over them. Almanzo thought perhaps he stayed because Alice fed him. Maybe he was sent to try us, Mother said. Maybe the Lord was merciful to us because we were merciful to him.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

If you're looking for forgiveness, pray. God may forgive you; I won't.

human behavior is fragile and unpredictable and often at the mercy of the situation. Every individual still, of course, has a choice as to how to behave, it's just that for many people the situation is the key determinate in that choice.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

We were as merciless and cruel as most primitives are. But we learnt at that school the private nature of cruelty; and our inborn hatred for freaks and outcasts was tempered by meeting them daily.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

If God could run out of grace, He would've for me by now. And yet every morning I wake up, He says, "There is more, there is still more.

He hasn't earned your your mercy. Nessy replied, Mercy isn't earned. It's given.

with towards none and charity for all...

I am trying to convince myself that failure is interesting. I look the word up in the American Heritage Dictionary to find its earliest incarnation, but it has always been just 'failure.' There's no Indo-European root meaning originally 'to dare' or 'mercy' or 'hummingbird' to make of the whole mess a mysterious poem. I can find no other fossilized remains in the word. Humility comes along on its own dime.

These are the three pillars on which our prayer rises to God: our own loyalty, the holiness of Israel, the mercy of God.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

but let us judge not that we be not judged.

August] 26th. [1862] I am a patient man, always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.

Denn die reinigendste, die allerschönste Blume der Liebe, aber nur der höchsten Liebe, ist das Verzeihen, darum wird es auch immer an Gott gefunden und an Müttern. Schöne Herzen tun es öfter--schlechte nie.