Quotes About Mercy

You don't know that you are saying these things to a princess, and that if I chose I could wave my hand and order you to execution. I only spare you because I am a princess, and you are a poor, stupid, old, vulgar thing, and don't know any better.

Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones.

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.

Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.

He will forgive you, but he won't remove the consequences... We must learn to obey

It's not for me to condemn anyone, no matter what they do, but I fear for her. God knows.

si Dios solamente fuera justo, todos pereceríamos; hasta el último ser humano sobre la faz de la tierra. ¿No lo ves? ¿Nunca has matado en tu corazón? Yo lo negué cuando me dio oportunidades de proclamarlo ante otros y dejé que mi miedo prevaleciera. Gracias a Dios porque Él es misericordioso.

Let anyone among you who is without sin, be the first to throw a stone at her. JESUS, JOHN 8:7

These women were not perfect and yet God in His infinite mercy used them in His perfect plan to bring forth the Christ, the Savior of the world. We live in desperate, troubled times when millions seek answers. These women point the way. The lessons we can learn from them are as applicable today as when they lived thousands of years ago. Tamar is a woman of hope. Rahab is a woman of faith. Ruth is a woman of love. Bathsheba is a woman who received unlimited Grace. Mary is a woman of obedience.

They didn't kill the one they judged anymore. They left them broken and wounded.

Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who understand the heights bad depths of God's mercy. - David

Let anyone among you who is without sin, be the first to throw a stone at her.

If Christianity is anything, it's a refusal to see human behavior as ruled by the balance sheet. We're not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we're doing.

If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I'd be killed. An honorable death doesn't exist. Death is death. But it's funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy

Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy. Thinking that he might still be helpful in finding her Looking Glass Maze, she said, I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy.

It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.

We will never forgive and we will never forget.

Mercy is a chimera.

Forgive you?" Leto's voice was full of sweet reason. "Of course I forgive you. That is your God's function. Your crime is forgiven. However, your stupidity requires a response.

In the perfect society, there is neither emotion nor mercy; precious space cannot be wasted on those who have outlived their usefulness.

Forgive us, Lord," Nunepi whispered. "Forgive you?" Leto's voice was full of sweet reason. "Of course I forgive you. That is your God's function. Your crime is forgiven. However, your stupidity requires a response.

mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.

Ocorreu-lhe que a misericórdia era a capacidade de parar, mesmo que apenas por um instante. Não havia misericórdia onde não era possível parar.