Merciful Quotes

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So this estate is given each of us to determine whether or not we will merit glory and honor "for ever and ever," or whether… — ElRay L. Christiansen
All of us must walk the same strait and narrow path, know the same kind of experiences as those we would seek to lead and… — Neal A. Maxwell
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,… — Charles Dickens
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are… — William Blackstone
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a… — Anna Brownell Jameson
Before Santa and presents and shopping and all the attendant Christmas (stuff) got involved, this holiday was enshrined to commemorate a guy who got nailed… — William Rivers Pitt
He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled their disobedience. On… — Irenaeus of Lyons
That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas. — Alan Rickman
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures. — Plutarch
What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from… — Richard Sibbes
So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had… — Gloria Swanson
The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest… — C.S. Lewis
Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind;… — Frederick William Faber
Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred… — John Angell James
When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors. — Chilon of Sparta
If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one. — Chilon of Sparta
Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and… — Marlena De Blasi
Invoke the Mercy of God and as milk returns not to the udder go not back to your wrongdoing." "Have compassion on yourself and on… — Muhammad
Let us be merciful in our mental judgments of our brothers and sisters, for, in truth, we are all one, and the more deeply they… — Emmet Fox

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