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Quotes About Merciful

Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!
~ Anne Bishop
There's no nonsense about the gun. It's quick, it's merciful, and it's clean.
~ Flann O'Brien
When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.
~ W. Clement Stone
Da da da (that is) Be subdued, Give, Be merciful.
~ Anonymous
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.Praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being,the All-merciful, the All-compassionate,the Master of the Day of Doom.Thee only we serve; to Thee alone we pray for succor.Guide us in the straight path,the path of those whom Thou hast blessed,not of those against whom Thou art wrathful,nor of those who are astray.
~ Anonymous
Franklin's prayer: O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to Thy other children as the only return in my power for Thy continual favors to me.
~ Frank Bettger
There hath been a slaughter for the sacrifice And slaying for the meat, but henceforth none Shall spill the blood of life, nor taste of flesh, Seeing that knowledge grows, and life is one, And mercy cometh to the merciful.
~ Edwin Arnold
A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
~ Louis Finkelstein
Great basmati is golden in color, smells floral and nutty, and can withstand the long cook time of this process. As an extra bonus, aged basmati is much more merciful, steaming up just fine even if you over- or undercook it a touch during the parboiling stage.
~ Sohla El-Waylly
God is so unique in giving His people ways to fellowship, witness, and remember what a mighty and merciful God He is.
~ Monica Johnson
It was always a cruelty to promise them equality," he said, "since by their nature they can never achieve it. We have already begun the merciful task of lowering their expectations.
~ Margaret Atwood
Memory is merciful, Joanna, more so than man. It fades past pain, yet holds bright the colors in recalled joy.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. —2 Corinthians 1:3
~ Gary Chapman
Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who framed them, and less about what he said than about what he meant; not to consider the actions of the accused so much as his intentions; nor this or that detail so much as the whole story; to ask not what a man is now but what he has always or usually been.
~ Aristotle
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is indeed natural to us to wish and to plan, and it is merciful in the Lord to disappoint our plans, and to cross our wishes. For we cannot be safe, much less happy, but in proportion as we are weaned from our own wills, and made simply desirous of being directed by his guidance.
~ John Newton
The story of Jonah isn't about learning to be obedient or facing the consequences. The story of Jonah is about how God is merciful to both the religiously self-righteous, unloving Pharisee (Jonah) and the irreligious, violent pagan. The story is a story about God's ability to save souls and use us even when we disobey. It's a story about God's mercy, not our obedience.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?
~ Stephen King
Nostalgia... the blessing of a merciful memory.
~ Steve Maraboli
The first part of Jeremiah's message was "remember." The second part was "realize." Here, we see the third part is "return." Because the heart of our Lord is so incredibly merciful and gracious, we don't have to work our way back to Him or prove our sincerity. All we have to do is turn to Him in humility and say, "Lord, I need You.
~ Jon Courson
O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.
~ Benjamin Franklin
My mind, through the merciful help of the Lord, hath been preserved in a good degree watchful and quiet, for which I have great cause to be thankful.
~ Benjamin Franklin
God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
~ Isaac Newton