Quotes and Sayings About Mercy
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In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
-- Aberjhani -
We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
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Be grateful for small mercies.
-- Alexandra AdornettoSource : Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.48, Macmillan
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!
-- Alice McDermottSource : "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". The Oprah Magazine Interview, www.oprah.com. April, 2014.
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The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.
-- Alistair Begg -
Human mercy is proof of having received divine mercy.
-- Alistair Begg -
Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
-- Anais Nin -
O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.
-- Anne BoleynSource : Anne Boleyn's speech at her execution, tudorhistory.org. May 19, 1536.
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Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
-- Anselm of Canterbury -
If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.
-- Avi -
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
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The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.
-- Bill Vaughan -
If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.
-- Billy Graham -
His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.
-- Boyd K. Packer -
Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.
-- Catherine McAuley -
mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?
-- Charles Bukowski -
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
-- Charles ChurchillSource : Charles Churchill (1779). “The Poetical Works of Cha. Churchill in Three Volumes: With the Life of the Author”, p.105
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Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?
-- Charles Kingsley -
Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Peace on earth, and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled.
-- Charles WesleySource : Hymns and Sacred Poems "Hymn for Christmas-Day" (1739). GeorgeWhitefield, in A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship (1753), altered Wesley's first two lines to "Hark! The Herald Angels sing / Glory to the new-born King!"
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Jesus weeps and loves me still.
-- Charles WesleySource : Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.190, Ravenio Books