Merciful Quotes

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.

Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father.

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.

I contact Allah the Holy the Merciful on a daily basis.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.

I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.

It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

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.

Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

Be merciful, moderate, and modest.

If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.

You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy.

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good.

A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.

Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.

Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.

Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets

Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.

The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet.

Surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of being merciful, especially to those who don't expect it and often feel they don't deserve it.

The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.

My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.

How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?

If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there

Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.