Quotes About Mercy

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us-which we do not deserve.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

We don't have eternal life because we're good, we have it because God is good.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness.

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

If God wasn't mightily amused by our humanness, I figure he'd have wiped us out a long time ago.

The Mercy of some of these Men is Cruelty itself," he wrote. "It were better for us and the Indians also, that we had no Liberty.

True religion has, at its core: Love, Peace, Mercy, Justice and Freedom. If any of these elements is not fully present in a religion, the religion has been compromised.

Forgiveness is most Christlike when it is given to the undeserving.

Release the guilty person from your judgment. Do not keep rehearsing the offense in your mind. Let God be the Judge.

My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy

Our broken criminal justice system has rejected individual justice and discretion it requires, and instead insists on robotic and inflexible mandatory sentencing, sentencing guidelines, death sentences, life without possibility of parole, the actual or de facto elimination of sentence modifications, pardons, commutations, expungement, and record sealing." - Lary Krasner

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior.

Some people, Orso supposed, can never forgive being forgiven.

You want to be merciful. To stand in the light. I understand it. I admire it. But, my queen...Only the victors can be merciful.