Quotes About Mercy

If you ask God for love, He may give you someone to forgive.If you ask God for patience, He may give you someone to bear.

What You Get Is What You Got Because Only One Who Gives You That And That Is God.

May God continue to give you much more grace for every great deed.

You must show no mercy...nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you...for your greatness will silence them all.

If somebody mistreats you, treat'em good. That kills'em.

Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist Er nicht.

Remember that unbalanced force is evil; that unbalanced severity is but cruelty and oppression; but that also unbalanced mercy is but weakness which would allow and abet Evil. Act passionately; think rationally; be Thyself.

La gente fa così, è cattiva con quelli che perdono.

And the beautiful are forgiven; no matter how egregious their shortcomings, they are forgiven.

You have to tell her that you have forgiven what she did to you. You have that duty because we all of us have it. It comes in different forms, but it is always the same duty. We have to forgive.

She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon us, no matter what our transgressions. It was far more likely that there would be love, falling like rain from above, changing the hearts of the wicked; transforming them

People don't talk about mercy very much these days—it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary

When somebody does wrong, Emma, we must remember that that person is still a human being like the rest of us. We must not rush to throw the first stone. We must remind ourselves that all of us do wrong from time to time, unless we're saints, which we aren't.

We were tiny creatures, really; tiny and afraid, trying to hold our place on the little platform that was our earth. So while the world about us might seem so solid, so permanent, it was not really. We were all at the mercy of chance, no matter how confident we felt, hostages to our own human frailty.

I'm saying that forgiveness is like the rain. That's all I'm saying. It makes things better. Rain does that too.

But if you do not forgive, and you think all the time about getting even, or punishing somebody who has done you a wrong, what are you achieving?

them that if we do not forgive then we run the risk of being eaten up with hatred inside

No, on the whole it was better to say kind things of late people, even if they did not fully deserve them. Kindness, after all, did not distinguish between those who merited it and those who did not. It was like rain, she thought. It fell everywhere and made everything green and new and alive once more. That is what it did.

one should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for revelling in the misfortunes of another.

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

Gli uomini veramente generosi sono sempre pronti a divenire compassionevoli allorché la disgrazia del nemico supera i limiti del loro odio.

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.