Merciful Quotes - Page 12

• There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father.

  Pope Francis

  Father, Judging, People

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Weakness, Doe, Strive

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• My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Jesus, Acknowledge

  "Vonnegut at 80". Interview with David Hoppe, www.nuvo.net. January 1, 2003.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou art not a child of your merciful Father; for otherwise thou wouldst be also as he, merciful. It is certainly true that we cannot show as great mercy to our neighbor, as God has to us; but it is the true work of the devil that we do the very opposite of mercy, which is a sure sign that there is not a grain of mercy in us.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Brother, Children

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• The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Tired, Night, Light

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• Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human' infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Passion, Hands, Broken

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 357, 1895.

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• In the Name of Allah the Merciful, the Compassionate, Who manifests Himself through everything, the revelation of a clear knowing to whomsoever He wishes, peace be upon you, my son. This praise belongs to Allah Who manifests Himself on the head of a pin to whom He wishes, so that one testifies that He is not, and another testifies that there is none other than He. But the witnessing in the denying of Him is not rejected, and the witnessing in the affirming of Him is not praised.

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Son, Names, Knowing

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