Top 100 Quotes About Mercy
#1. There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality
there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.
Christopher Moore
#2. I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.
Peter Hoeg
#3. Do not mistake my compassion for injured creatures as any kind of personal interest, Mr. Devlin. I once bandaged the paw of a stray dog I found in the village. I would place you in the same category as he."
"My angel of mercy.
Lisa Kleypas
#5. The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.
Richard Baxter
#6. The king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,
Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
I have no relish of them, but abound
In the division of each several crime,
Acting in many ways.
William Shakespeare
#8. The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make for a winning hand.
Kristin Cashore
#11. I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
Conrad Black
#12. If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.
Watchman Nee
#13. Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
Said Nursi
#14. And is it not ridiculous to think of justice when society greets all violence as a reasonable and expedient necessity, and any act of mercy - an acquittal, for instance - provokes a great outburst of dissatisfied, vengeful feeling?
Anton Chekhov
#16. I bid you to aid one another. Let the wealthy have charity for the poor. Let the strong have mercy on the weak. And I promise, if we are victorious, such a time shall never come again.
Jacqueline Carey
#17. In mercy, God has called you and saved, healed, blessed and delivered you.
T. B. Joshua
#18. If you examine your life well, you will find many instances when God showed His unmistakable mercy to you. Trouble was brewing, but it passed you by for some reason. God delivered you. Acknowledge these and thank God, Who loves you.
Theophan The Recluse
#19. I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#20. Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
Gary Shteyngart
#21. Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
Suzanne Fields
#22. You don't live in luxury! You are relegated to sleep in the little store room behind the kitchen with the cockroaches and rats and are at the mercy of Mrs. Gupta,' Reena was indignant. 'It's five-star accommodation compared to a mud hut.
Renita D'Silva
#23. 13He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
Anonymous
#24. Why, for mercy's sake, did boys try to dance who didn't know the first thing about dancing; and who had feet as big as boats?
L.M. Montgomery
#25. Samuel laughed out loud. You still haven't figured it out, have you, Mercy? He never was mad about the car. He was the first one at the scene of the accident. He thought you'd killed yourself. We all did. That was a pretty spectacular wreck.
Patricia Briggs
#26. To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.
Thomas Merton
#27. Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.
Deepak Chopra
#28. May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#29. Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
Saint Augustine
#30. Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.
Hanif Kureishi
#31. Naked on the bank, they looked like refugees waiting for the mercy of sepsis. It
Bobby Adair
#32. Doing justice, loving mercy, seeking truth ... these are the issues [the Bible] is clear on.
Mel White
#33. Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
Barbara Kingsolver
#34. I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
David Brainerd
#36. Something about being here in this neon-glitzy place, my shoes off and my boobs pushed up to my neck made me feel bold. Daring. Ready to grab the world by the balls and make it beg for mercy. Rawr.
Elle Casey
#37. Only those who will love longer than they expected to can truly love pecan pie, which doesn't explain its status as death rows most requested last dessert, or why chopped pecans, corn syrup, directions from the Karo bottle's cherry-red side are what mercy taste like to some. But there you have it.
Kate Lebo
#38. We all have handicaps. The difference is that some of us must reveal ours, while others must conceal theirs, to be treated with mercy.
Yahia Lababidi
#39. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#40. Thankfully, God has shown us that hope, in its million different forms, always springs from three primary colors: justice, mercy, and love.
Richard Dahlstrom
#41. Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
P. J. O'Rourke
#42. If you owe your banker a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe your banker a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
John Maynard Keynes
#43. Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.
John Calvin
#44. Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.
Joseph Addison
#45. He is the wisest and the most knowing man who advises people not to lose hope and faith in the Mercy of Allah and not to be too sure and over-confident of immunity from His Wrath and Punishment.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#46. Real love sucked in a way, didn't it? Because it ripped your heart out without mercy and let it bleed all over the floor.
Miranda Liasson
#47. Worry is a sin, even I know that, yet I am more than just a lily of the field. I'm a lily that's been plucked from the ground and laid at your feet. When it comes to you, I'm rootless and helpless and at your mercy for sunshine and water. And I'm not even supposed to be yours. How can I not worry?
Sierra Simone
#48. Wanting everything that's mine to actually be mine and not at the mercy of others and their mistakes.
Cecelia Ahern
#49. The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father,
Because, in chief, it, only, can defend
Against itself. At its mercy, we depend
Upon it.
Wallace Stevens
#50. The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take adversity in stride and are prepared for trouble even when at ease; therefore, they are not at the mercy of fate.
Zicheng Hong
#51. In a world that lives like a fist
mercy is not more than waking
with your hands open.
Mark Nepo
#52. Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.
Ovid
#53. Humility is recognizing the fullness of our sin, so we can embrace the fullness of God's mercy.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#54. A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.
Fulton J. Sheen
#55. There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
William Cowper
#56. If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
H.P. Lovecraft
#58. They're strong, they're fast, and the kill without mercy or hesitation. They're immortal, too-which kind of makes them a bitch to destroy.
Richelle Mead
#59. You are My Mother, the Mother of Mercy, and the consolation of the souls in Purgatory.
Brigit Of Kildare
#60. The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.
John Piper
#61. Celeste chose to sleep through the flight, which was a small mercy.
Kiera Cass
#62. My life's been defined by my actions. I've shaped my destiny through my battles. I would rather keep chasing after my dreams until I crumble into dust than sit around waiting for fate to show me mercy.
Koji Suzuki
#63. Oh, God," Wilhelm prayed, "Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better with myself. For all the time I have wasted I am very sorry. Let me out of this clutch and into a different life. For I am all balled up. Have mercy.
Saul Bellow
#65. What we're talking about here is goodness, mercy, and justice- and those are not fantasies. They'll exist whether you believe in them or not. However, if you believe, then you'll put your beliefs in action; and if you act you will help ensure that evil doesn't triumph. But only if you act.
Dean Koontz
#66. One way and another, all three synoptic gospels are clear: in telling the story of Jesus they are consciously telling the story of how Israel's God came back to his people, in judgment and mercy.
N. T. Wright
#67. What a beautiful truth of faith this is for our lives: the mercy of God! God's love for us is so great, so deep; it is an unfailing love, one which always takes us by the hand and supports us, lifts us up and leads us on.
Pope Francis
#68. As I worship, my perspective shifts. I focus on His attributes: His goodness, His power, His name, and His mercy. Crises that once overwhelmed me become insignificant in comparison to God's vast power and all-encompassing love for me as His child.
Katherine J. Walden
#69. Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#70. God's sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
R.C. Sproul
#71. Those who ask for mercy," he answered coldly, "are too weak to deserve it.
Drew Karpyshyn
#72. Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
Malcolm X
#73. It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.
Jim Gaffigan
#74. We all can have accidents in life. God knew this, and so He sent Jesus as our Healer. His healing touch is God's mercy to us. If you are hurt, ask God to heal you and then trust Him to do it in His way and in His time.
Stormie O'martian
#75. Love alone allows man to forget himself ... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.
Karl Rahner
#76. Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.
Dalai Lama
#77. The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
Thomas Merton
#78. Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.
Vincent De Paul
#79. Place the crosshairs over his heart. It would be a mercy killing. A man who goes to sleep without satisfying his woman deserves punishment. He sleeps through her self-pleasure? Death is too kind.
Jessica Clare
#80. He was getting so skinny, he had to cut new holes in his belt. But he would sell himself in the pleasure houses of West Stave before he'd ask for his father's mercy.
Leigh Bardugo
#81. Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God.
Pope John Paul II
#82. Have you ever sat around while someone held their breath? For a while, it doesn't bother you, but eventually you start holding your breath with them, willing them to breathe. it's one of those automatic reflexes. (Mercy)
Patricia Briggs
#83. God loved me enough to make me aware, at a deep experiential level, of my own pride and sinfulness, and my desperate need for his mercy and continuing work in my life as a believer.
J.P. Moreland
#84. Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic interests of competitive societies but for its present value as a perishable piece of life itself.
Jonathan Kozol
#85. The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul
breaking the mental manacles
getting the brain out of bondage
giving courage to thought
filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#86. If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.
Janet Morris
#87. The lifeblood of Mercy For Animals is our undercover investigations of animal agriculture.
Nathan Runkle
#88. It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.
Ed Buckner
#89. It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity ... Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
Saint John Chrysostom
#90. Oh, how great is the goodness of God, greater than we can understand. There are moments and there are mysteries of the divine mercy over which the heavens are astounded. Let our judgment of souls cease, for God's mercy upon them is extraordinary.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#91. Oh, [god] can hear you just fine. He hears everything. Every scream. Every cry. Every whimper. Every plea for mercy. For death. He hears. He just doesn't give a fuck.
Jason Aaron
#92. My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because mercy made me look vulnerable and foolish, and it made me less productive.
Anne Lamott
#93. There was certainly much to be said for being at the mercy of the primeval elements, to be swept along by circumstances one could not in any way control, but it was good to return, to feel one's identity expand again, unchecked.
Michael Moorcock
#94. The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself to no end.
Noam Shpancer
#95. There, he thought, was the final abortion of the creed of collective interdependence, the creed of non-identity, non-property, non-fact: the belief that the moral stature of one is at the mercy of the action of another.
Ayn Rand
#97. Mercy. Had I ever really understood it? Had I actually believed I knew what it was to suffer? To forgive?
Leigh Bardugo
#98. What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.
Steven Weber
#99. I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.
Michael Eric Dyson
#100. My dad always said we're at the mercy of something greater than ourselves and whatever humanity we don't show to others, we pay for. We're paying for.
Courtney Summers
