Quotes About Mercy

We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy.

Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent.

He felt he had passed beyond the bounds of vengeance, and that he could no longer say, God is for and with me.

At the end of every prayer introduced the entreaty oftener addressed to man than to God: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us. Yet in spite of his earnest prayers, Dantes remained a prisoner

All charitable souls are requested to pray God for the sincere repentance of these two miserable creatures.

He then gave himself up to his happiness. He would no longer be alone. He was, perhaps, about to regain his liberty; at the worst, he would have a companion, and captivity that is shared is but half captivity. Plaints made in common are almost prayers, and prayers where two or three are gathered together invoke the mercy of heaven.

And now, madame, try to make your peace with God, for you are judged by men!

Lebt wohl, Güte, Menschenfreundlichkeit, Dankbarkeit... lebt wohl, ihr sämtlichen Gefühle, die das Herz aufgehen lassen! Ich habe mich an die Stelle der Vorsehung gesetzt, um die Guten zu belohnen... Jetzt möge der Gott der Rache mir sein Amt abtreten, um die Bösen zu bestrafen!

God may sometimes appear to forget, when his justice is resting; but the time always comes when he remembers

Sauver un homme, épargner un tourment à un père, ménager la sensibilité d'une femme, ce n'est point faire une bonne oeuvre, c'est faire acte d'humanité.

Pentru Dumnezeu, doamn?! r?spunse procurorul regal cu o t?rie care nu era lipsit? de usc?ciune; pentru Dumnezeu, nu-mi cereÈ›i graÈ›ie pentru vinovat. Ce sunt eu? Legea. Are ochi legea s? vad? tristeÈ›ea dumneavoastr?? Are urechi legea s? aud? glasul dumneavoastr? blând? Nu, doamn?, legea porunceÈ™te, iar când legea a poruncit, loveÈ™te.

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.

He said God could distinguish a sinner from a sin.

Women pitied her, but went on their way; they had their own troubles to attend to, and mercy was a scarce commodity.

No one can accept the indiscriminate order of cruelty.

Sister St. Saviour did, of course. But the woman, childless, stubborn, coming to the close of her life, had a mad heart. Mad for mercy, perhaps, mad for her own authority in all things—a trait Annie had come to love and admire—but mad nonetheless. Riding home from the cemetery, Sister St. Saviour had said, "It would be a different Church if I were running it.

Hard to be Christ too, say Shug. But he manage. Remember that. Thou Shalt Not Kill, He said. And probably wanted to add on to that, Starting with me. He knowed the fools he was dealing with.

Repelled by cruelty let us ban it from our hearts.