Quotes About Mercy

feeling for normal frailty and for mercy before justice and humanity before dogma

Sometimes redemption lands in your life like a bird and looks you straight in the eye, even when you believe you don't deserve forgiveness.

Sometimes redemption lands in your life like a bird and looks you straight in the eye, even when you believe you don't deserve forgiveness.

the Son's, love is greater than the sum of the world's sin and how the Father cannot resist this love and lets love reign at the judgment in place of ordinary justice.

Better no rule than cruel rule.

The Flea, terrified, whimpered in a weak little voice, "Oh, sir! pray let me go; don't kill me! I am such a little thing that I can't do you much harm." But the Man laughed and said, "I am going to kill you now, at once: whatever is bad has got to be destroyed, no matter how slight the harm it does." Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Dios no perdona porque nunca ha condenado»

if we are going to be genuinely Christlike, we will not be conformists! For one, our Lord can hardly be called a conformist. He disturbed the status quo, railed against injustice and lack of mercy, hung out with highly questionable people, and fomented a revolution that called for the overthrow of religious oppression.

Socrates: Yes mercy and grace are all linked with Love. Let your tears of gratitude wash away the dark dirt of ignorance obscuring your own dear Self which is Love. Charmides: So Love has nothing to do with lust then? Socrates: No! Lust is from the selfish false sense of a 'me' desperate for some pleasurable, momentary relief from its anguish and boredom. Love is refined, and her amorous advances are from the spirit, not the body.

There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

Meneer, said the captain, if man takes unto himself God's right to punish, then he must also take upon himself God's promise to restore.

Tomorrow they would all go home, all except his son. And he would stay in the place where they would put him, in the great prison in Pretoria, in the barred and solitary cell; and mercy failing, would stay there till he was hanged. Aye, but the hand that had murdered had once pressed the mother's breast into the thirsting mouth, had stolen into the father's hand when they went out into the dark. Aye, but the murderer afraid of death had once been a child afraid of the night.

His eyes fill with tears, his deep gentleness returns to him. He goes to her and lifts her from the floor to the chair. Inarticulately he strokes her face, his heart filled with pity.–God forgives us, he says. Who am I not to forgive? Let us pray.

He had come to tell his brother that power corrupts, that a man who fights for justice must himself be cleansed and purified, that love is greater than force. And none of these things had he done. God have mercy on me, Christ have mercy on me. He turned to the door, but it was locked and bolted. Brother had shut out brother, from the same womb had they come.

Consider the work of Calvary. A perfect work, perfect in every respect, perfect in every aspect

fact: when the Bible speaks about healing, referring to the atoning sacrifice of Christ in

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Your act of vengeance will achieve nothing but create a spiral of vendetta. Find it in your heart to forgive

All will be well if we repent of our sins, accept God's love and demonstrate it by following His law. This

You call it justice but how much punishment is adequate - when is it fine to forgive and move on? A society that does not make room for imperfection can never be a happy society.

Isn't it wonderful to serve the God of "it's never too late"?)

The Christian is responsible to care for the hurting and the downtrodden, and should not be in the business of creating further pain.