Mercy Quotes

O good Jesu Thou has bound my heart in the thought of Thy Name, and now I can not but sing it; therefore have mercy upon me, making perfect that Thou hast ordained.

I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

While the Bibles account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.

You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

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.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.

Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

Peace on earth and mercy mild are still possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

As I live in awareness of, growth in, and gratitude for mercy, my life will bring glory to Him

Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.

Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.

Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

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

The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.

Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

Do not respond to attacks with attacks. Respond with Mercy & Respect

Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God.

Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

Lord help my poor soul.

Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.