Merciful Quotes - Page 11

• It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.

  Mark Twain

  Sweet, Jealous, Sarcasm

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• Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Cost, Littles, Accomplish

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• Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the Lord thence our protector, whom or what shall we fear?

  Jeremiah Denton

  Coins, Bears, Lord

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• Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Disposition, Praiseworthy

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• If as we accept God is the perfect epitome of justice, mercy, goodness, and compassion, then our efforts to define the divine will through Sharia should be predicated on achieving a result that is merciful compassionate.

  Mark Durie

  Compassion, Perfect, Justice

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• God is called jealous, angered, repentant, merciful, and foreknowing. These simply mean that, because He guards the chastity of every soul, He can, in human fashion, be called jealous, although He is not subject to any mental torment.

  Pope Gregory I

  Fashion, Mean, Jealous

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

  Marcus Eremita

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Doe

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• It is God, Who is merciful and grants everyone what he needs, Who is building him up when He gives him more than he needs; in doing so He shows the abundance of His love for men and teaches him to give thanks. When He does not grant him what he needs, He makes him compensate for the thing he needs through the working of the mind and teaches him patience.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Men, Giving

  Saint Dorotheus (of Gaza) (1977). “Discourses and Sayings”

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• I contact Allah the Holy the Merciful on a daily basis.

  Al-Saadi Gaddafi

  Holy, Contact, Bases

  Source: libyadiary.wordpress.com

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• There are many names to Allah plus one you don't know. And each name is an attribute that flexes his characteristics: the Benevolent, the Merciful, the All-Knower... And to me, my names be flexin' personalities of myself: Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, Bobby Steels, the RZA, the Rzarector... These are personalities of myself.

  RZA

  Names, Personality, Steel

  Source: www.hiphopcore.net

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• And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of weakness. When you're weak, do you compromise, do you bend, do you give in, do you accommodate? And then the test of strength. When you're strong, are you merciful, are you generous, or are you cruel?

  Salman Rushdie

  Strong, Two, Giving

  "In 'Joseph Anton,' Salman Rushdie Writes Novelistically About His Own Life". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 7, 2012.

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• I then greet and cordially thank you all, dear friends belonging to other religious traditions; first of all the Muslims, who worship the one God, living and merciful, and call upon Him in prayer, and all of you. I really appreciate your presence: in it I see a tangible sign of the will to grow in mutual esteem and cooperation for the common good of humanity.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Prayer, Appreciate

  "Pope’s Address to Representatives of the Churches, Ecclesial Communities and Other Religions". zenit.org. March 20, 2013.

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• The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.

  John H Aughey

  Faults, Judgment, Generous

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• In the Orient the ultimate divine mystery is sought beyond all human categories of thought and feeling, beyond names and forms, and absolutely beyond any such concept as of a merciful or wrathful personality, chooser of one people over another, comforter of folk who pray, and destroyer of those who do not. Such anthropomorphic attributions of human sentiments and thoughts to a mystery beyond thought is-from the point of view of Indian thought-a style of religion for children.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Views, Names

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.53, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Though we may feel we are "like a broken vessel," as the Psalmist says (Psalms 31:12), we must remember, that vessel is in the hands of the divine potter. Broken minds can be healed just the way broken bones and broken hearts are healed. While God is at work making those repairs, the rest of us can help by being merciful, nonjudgmental, and kind.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Heart, Hands, Broken

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• Surely the thing God enjoys most about being God is the thrill of being merciful, especially to those who don't expect it and often feel they don't deserve it.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Thrill, Being Me, Enjoy

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• The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.

  Billy Graham

  Christ On The Cross, Grace, Compassionate Love

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; — hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; — hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin — a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it — if such a thing were possible — even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Morning, Eye, Heart

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• God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Moving

  William Law (1734). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].”, p.8

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• The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet.

  Ilona Andrews

  Order, Bullets, Aids

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• God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Children, Heart, Giving

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• Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.

  Stacy Aumonier

  Memories, Heart, Law

  Stacy Aumonier (1920). “One After Another”

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• It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy--a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all.

  Graham Greene

  Animal, Thinking, People

  Graham Greene (1982). “The power and the glory”, Viking Pr

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• A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Men, Evil

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

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• there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Faith, Real, Book

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