Quotes About Works Of Mercy

#1. the present moment is all we can call our own for works of mercy, of righteous dealing, and of family tenderness. All

George Eliot

#2. [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy ...

Vincent De Paul

#3. Our rule is the works of mercy ... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

Dorothy Day

#4. Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

Dorothy Day

#5. I dream of a church that is once again called great, even by our skeptics, because our works of mercy cannot be denied.

Jen Hatmaker

#6. The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

Dorothy Day

#7. Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

Saint Augustine

#8. Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

William E. Simon

#9. Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.

Dorothy Day

#10. Wherefore, brethren, seek not to counsel the Lord, but to take counsel from his hand. For behold, ye yourselves know that he counseleth in wisdom, and in justice, and in great mercy, over all his works.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#11. Maybe life is just easier if you're a little goofy ...

Christopher Moore

#12. 4 But when the goodness of God and His love for mankind appeared, 5 He saved us - not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Anonymous

#13. I'm gonna rock you 'til your pussaaa's sore.

Rod Stewart

#14. But O the exceeding grace
Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,
And all his works with mercy doth embrace,
That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,
To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.

Edmund Spenser

#15. Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.

Charles Kingsley

#16. The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Martin Luther

#17. Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

William Penn

#18. [Camus] The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.

Olivier Todd

#19. Love and mercy heals;where nothing works, love does..

Henrietta Newton Martin

#20. Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer.

Frances Xavier Cabrini

#21. I want to make this world perfect.

Malala Yousafzai

#22. They (the creatures) encourage us to imitate Him whose mercy is over all His works. It may enlarge our hearts toward these poor creatures to reflect that not one of them is forgotten in the sight of our Father which is in heaven.

John Wesley

#23. I didn't deserve reconciliation or love in that moment, but that's how mercy works. The

Bryan Stevenson

#24. If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.

John Wesley

#25. Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.

Billy Graham

#26. Father, you know us in secret, and you know all our secret places.
What we do to benefit your kingdom will not be lost if it is not seen by others,
for you see and you reward according to your grace and mercy.
Strengthen us to do good works, visibly or invisibly, always in your name.

G.K. Chesterton

#27. We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize His Wonderful works and wonders also in flowers when we ponder his might and goodness. Therefore we laud, magnify and thank Him.

Martin Luther

#28. Mercy, who breaks God's commandments without fear or regret, who works hard to make others suffer, or who fights for personal gain at your expense

Sarah Price

#29. God never meant that man should scale the Heavens
By strides of human wisdom. In his works,
Though wondrous, he commands us in his word
To seek him rather where his mercy shines.

William Cowper

#30. There are nice, funny, totally good-looking guys out there. You just have to know where to look ... and apparently, where NOT to look.

Meg Cabot

#31. Isn't that the way God works? She'd thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#32. Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.

Tommy Lee