Merciful Quotes
271 quotes by 197 authors
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be…
— Maya Angelou
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I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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We are often more merciful to our animals [cats] than we are to each other.
— P.D. James
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The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and…
— Richard J. Foster
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I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on…
— John William Draper
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Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.
— W. Clement Stone
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Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.
— Khalil Gibran
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Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Waiting upon the Lord gives us a priceless opportunity to discover that there are many who wait upon us. Our children wait upon us to…
— Robert D. Hales
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Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.
— Pope John Paul II
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Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming…
— Pope John Paul II
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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark
— Mary Stewart
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God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes…
— Pope Innocent III
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With faith in the merciful Redeemer and His power, potential despair turns to hope. One's very heart and desires change, and the once-appealing sin becomes…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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