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Quotes About Merciful

For Allah is to all people most surely full of kindness, Most Merciful.
~ Abdullah Yusuf Ali
I am benevolent.
~ Chris Eubank Sr.
Then Adam received some words [of prayer] from his Lord and He accepted his repentance. He is the Forgiving One, the Merciful.
~ Wahiduddin Khan
I think people get excited about their perspective on sexuality because it gives them the feeling that, their failures notwithstanding, if they take a hard stand on what they consider to be godly, maybe God will be more merciful to them.
~ Walter Wink
I long for a ruler. One who will be merciful and just. Who will be good, truly good. Life would be so small if we were all we had. We need something—someone—to make us look up.
~ Rachel Starr Thomson
In the crook of the crescent moon sits the Holy Lady, with strong muscles and a merciful heart. She kicks her her splendid legs like the moon is her swing and the sky, her front porch. She waves down at Sidda like she has just spotted an old buddy.
~ Rebecca Wells
God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
~ Alexandre Dumas
We commend unto Thy hands of mercy, most merciful Father, the souls of these our brothers departed, and we commit their bodies to the deep.
~ Alexander Kent
Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee:Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and Mighty!God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity.
~ Reginald Heber
Blessed are the merciful…" The fourth step is to be merciful. ¬ Mercy contains three components: 1. Forgiveness of others 2. Compassion for the suffering of others. 3. Purity of intent in action and in speech – never is one's primary intent to hurt others. Cruelty and selfishness will assuredly block the path of spiritual growth.
~ Ren Lexander
Most spies were amateurs: frustrated revolutionaries of the left or right, people who wanted the imaginary glamour of espionage, greedy men or lovesick women or blackmail victims. The few professionals were very dangerous indeed; they were not merciful men.
~ Ken Follett
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Jesus is the best clue we have as to what God is like and He is consistently gracious and merciful, especially to those who are failures. He is harsh to uptight, judgmental people, but merciful and gracious to the failures. He seems to draw out the smallest kernel of faith in each person that He's with. So, I presume that that's the way God is going to judge humanity.
~ yancey philip
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! All Thy works shall praise Thy name, in earth, and sky, and sea; Holy, holy, holy; merciful and mighty! God in three Persons, blessed Trinity! Amen. —REGINALD HEBER (1783–1826)
~ David P. Gushee
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives—altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter.
~ Richard J. Foster
Julian] was reckoned the reincarnation of Titus the son of Vespasian, in the glorious outcome of his campaigns very like Trajan, as merciful as Antoninus, and in his striving after truth and perfection the equal of Marcus Aurelius, on whom he endeavoured to model his own actions and character.
~ Ammianus Marcellinus
You... you're--' 'A virgin?' Jonah's voice cracked in the middle of that hated word. 'Holy fucking merciful Christ giving Peter a blow job.' 'Jesus,' Jonah breathed. 'Came first?' Amelia said, popping out of the ladies' room with impeccable timing. 'God, Ethan, that was the best blasphemy ever!'
~ Amy Lane
We catch ourselves thinking, in the bitterness that can accompany the unexpected sound of an aluminum can bending underfoot, that it would have been merciful if Columbus had been wrong and the world flat, with an edge from which to fall, rather than a circular cage that returns us to our mistakes. The geography seems hopeless.
~ Robert Adams
Adonai, for looking on me with such mercy. May the earth and everyone on it praise your name for your goodness and love.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Clearly, this is an historic form of waterboarding, and, interestingly, the professional torturers of the Inquisition were not only happy to define it as a form of torture, but by the early 1600s had abandoned it in favour of methods they 'regarded as more merciful'.46
~ Robert Goodwin
God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
~ Alexandre Dumas
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
You're a virgin. Hell's fire, Mother Night, and may the Darkness be merciful, you're a virgin." Still clutching the coat, she eyed him warily. "There's no reason to get hysterical. It's not contagious." Jared
~ Anne Bishop
You're a virgin. Hell's fire, Mother Night, and may the Darkness be merciful, you're a virgin." Still clutching the coat, she eyed him warily. "There's no reason to get hysterical. It's not contagious.
~ Anne Bishop