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Quotes About Mercy

Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.
~ Bruce Cockburn
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
~ Thomas Merton
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
~ Cesare Pavese
Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.
~ David Rakoff
Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.
~ George MacDonald
If it's sin, that's good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with.
~ Henry R Brandt
True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
~ Dallas Willard
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
~ Eugene Forsey
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
~ C. S. Lewis
God always offers us a second chance in life.
~ Paulo Coelho
Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
As I live in awareness of, growth in, and gratitude for mercy, my life will bring glory to Him
~ Sandy Smith
It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]
~ Statius
The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren't the ticket to earning God's favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.
~ Bill Courtney
No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins
~ C. J. Mahaney
In the sun that is young once only,Time let me play and beGolden in the mercy of his means.
~ Dylan Thomas
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
~ E. H. Chapin
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
~ E. H. Chapin
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
~ E. H. Chapin
godly power and godly love are related to one another neither through subordination nor dialectically. Rather, God's mightiness is understood as the power of his love. Only love is almighty. Then God's lordship is to be understood as the rule of his mercy and God's law is accordingly the law of his grace.
~ Eberhard Jüngel
the industry found no shortage of ambitious collaborations eager to show what humans are capable of when shame and mercy are removed from the list of ground rules.
~ Ece Temelkuran