Merciful Quotes

271 quotes by 197 authors

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own… — Henry Ward Beecher
I will be merciful, and I will believe in people. If I am to err, I will err on the side of mercy. I will… — David K. Bernard
Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God. — David Attenborough
Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please. — Tom Paxton
Nothing stirs Godâ€™s heart more than a humble heart and a merciful spirit. God responds to mercy, because it is through compassion that we fully… — Nicky Cruz
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… — Lars von Trier
Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed… — William Shakespeare
Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows… — Dorotheus of Gaza
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… — Martin Luther
You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time… — Maya Angelou
Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be… — Will Rogers
Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him… — Baldassare Castiglione
Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions. — H P Lovecraft
May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man… — H P Lovecraft
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. — Khalil Gibran
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower… — Douglas William Jerrold
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. — Lawrence G. Lovasik
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. — H P Lovecraft
People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have… — Joyce Meyer

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