Mercy Quotes - Page 18

• On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

  Aeschylus

  Justice, Looks, Afar

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• To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood.

  Christian McEwen

  Grief, Childhood, Feelings

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• When in doubt, lean to the side of #‎ mercy .

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Doubt, Sides, When In Doubt

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• Your Lord is Love: love Him and in Him all men, as His children in Christ. Your Lord is a fire: do not let your heart be cold, but burn with faith and love. Your Lord is light: do not walk in darkness of mind, without reasoning or understanding, or without faith. Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Children, Love You

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• Acceptance is not a talent you either have or don't have. It's a learned response. My meditation teacher made a great point about the difference between a reaction and a response: You may not have control over your initial reaction to something, but you can decide what your response will be. You don't have to be at the mercy of your emotions, and acceptance can be your first step toward empowerment . . . For me, acceptance has been the cornerstone to my having an emotionally healthy response to my illness.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Teacher, Acceptance, Differences

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

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• All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

  Plato

  Love, Blessed, Names

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• We give thanks often with a tearful, doubtful voice, for our spiritual mercies positive, but what an almost infinite field there is for mercies negative! We cannot even imagine all that God has allowed us not to do, not to be.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Voice

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• Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Freedom, Hands, Feelings

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.174, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Justice

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• The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message of life in a dark world.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.579, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Andy Stanley (2008). “How Good Is Good Enough?: Since Nobody's Perfect . . .”, p.53, Multnomah

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• . . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations of situations that are insane or absurd. . . . At first I thought the events had power in themselves, that I would just present them. I really wasn't aware of the things that finally became central issues to me - the shifting alliances, the way people hardly even know they've shifted. That part of [A QUESTION OF MERCY] is very familiar to me in terms of my other plays.

  David Rabe

  Thinking, Play, Issues

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• Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.

  Billy Graham

  God, Christian, Moving

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.742, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Forgiveness is not a result of our efforts, but is a gift. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit who showers us with mercy and grace that pours forth unceasingly from the open heart of Christ crucified and risen.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Effort, Grace

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• God is the Father who is full of mercy. God is the Father who is full of comfort. That is the kind of relationship he offers to you.

  Rick Warren

  God, Christian, Father

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• . . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy . . .

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Spiritual, Ideas

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• Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every living creature; and this being singly attended to, people become tender-hearted and sympathizing; but when frequently and totally rejected, the mind becomes shut up in a contrary disposition.

  John Woolman

  Exercise, People, Mind

  John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.3

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• I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Abuse, Miserable

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Twitter post from May 29, 2014

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• Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• (Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.

  Stefan Zweig

  Christian, Jobs, Freedom

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• How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!

  Emily Dickinson

  Feelings, Pockets, Safe

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.167, Harvard University Press

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• A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Men, Reputation

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

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• And with the grace of Baptism and of Eucharistic Communion I can become an instrument of God's mercy, of that beautiful mercy of God.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Mercy Of God, Justice

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