Merciful Quotes

“The law isn't merciful.”

— Cate Campbell Beatty

God is as just as he is merciful.

— Thomas Brooks

Let us be merciful as well as just.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Please God, be merciful to me!”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Be merciful to God.

— Michael Sams

“Be merciful cheerfully.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Am I not merciful?”

— Jay Kristoff

“Pluralism is a merciful narcotic.”

— Saki

“God is merciful to children, but the children must be worthy as well.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

— Nancy Gibbs

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

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“You mustn't ask too much of human endurance, one must be merciful.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Man be merciful, for your Maker is merciful.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Remember: in the end, it is the merciful who obtain mercy.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

— Statius

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

— Mary Stewart

I'm more merciful towards the world because the world has been merciful towards me.

— Everlast

“Be merciful to him who is beneath you, and you will have mercy from Him who is above you. The”

— John Wortabet

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

— Annie Dillard

You are merciful... when you forgive in others the faults you condemn in yourself.

— Nikhil Saluja

You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

— Jonah

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

— Anonymous

“Be noble like the sun; let even those who resent you for shinning benefit from your warmth.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle,…

— Swami Vivekananda

The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and…

— Richard J. Foster

How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves…

— Rita Mae Brown

Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True…

— John Newton

Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the…

— Jeremiah Denton

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than…

— William Blackstone

With faith in the merciful Redeemer and His power, potential despair turns to hope. One's very heart and desires change, and the…

— D. Todd Christofferson

“Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy;…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're…

— Neil Gaiman

The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.' These men without possessions or power, these strangers on Earth, these sinners, these…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all -…

— Martin Luther

Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no…

— Pope Pius X

Those who will repent and forsake sin will find that His merciful arm is outstretched still. Those who listen to and heed…

— Boyd K. Packer