Quotes About Mercy

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy, long-suffering, and very pitiful, and forgiveth sins, and saveth in time of affliction.

His mercy endureth for ever.

Until seventy times seven.

A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.Come now, and let us reason together… though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.

God be merciful to me a sinner.

Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

Without shedding of blood is no remission.

Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Love someone who doesn't deserve it.

Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much.

And it seems to me, Miss O'Breen, that to forswear mercy is to forswear humanity. If to destroy evil we take up its very weapons, we shall learn in time that all we have destroyed is the best in ourselves. [Jonadab Evans]

if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been through all that.

We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us as we are, but mercy assaults us and batters at the gates of our heart, demanding that we be made new...Sometimes sorrow is easier than joy, and despair more comforting that hope.

According to Dio, he promised not to "take any cruel action simply because I have conquered

Clemency was to be "the new style of conquest.

Nor was there much mercy toward Julia: Augustus sent her into exile;

Caesar's famous clemency, although regarded with some suspicion, contributed to an atmosphere of calm.

The difficulty of reconciling the existence of evil with God's alleged omnipotence and mercy has, it can plausibly be argued, defeated every orthodox theologian in the history of monotheism.

I have a hard time understanding how cutting the program in our country that provides healthcare to working families by $800 billion can be classified as mercy.