Mercy Quotes - Page 38

• This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the contrary, God's mercy is a great gift of grace precisely because sins are sins and they call for repentance and forgiveness.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Stress, Mean, Thinking

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• Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Leadership, Simple, Profound

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• There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.

  Frederick William Faber

  Sea, Hymns, Oratory

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• Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.

  Joseph Addison

  Prayer, Grief, Soul

  Joseph Addison (1749). “The Spectator”, p.69

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• The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

  John Updike

  Self, Creative, Use

  "Writers on Themselves: Magic, Working Secrets" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. August 17, 1986.

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• The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Sweet, Jesus, Heart

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• Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Fall, Hierarchy

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• The new year on which we are about to enter is unopened, and we know not what shall befall us; but if we follow Christ we need have no fear. So let us leave the old year with gratitude to God for its mercies, and with penitence for its failures and sins; and let us enter the new year with earnest resolve in Christ's name to make it the holiest and most beautiful year we have ever lived.

  J.R. Miller

  Beautiful, New Year, Gratitude

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• My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls.

  Robert Southwell

  Blow, Love Is, Men

  Robert Southwell (1856). “Poetical Works”, p.98

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• If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would be an act of mercy to mankind to extinguish such opinions. By burning the bodies of those who diffuse them many souls would be saved that would otherwise be lost, and so there would be an economy of torment in the long run. It is therefore not surprising that enthusiasts should be intolerant.

  William Winwood Reade

  Running, Religious, Men

  William Winwood Reade (1876). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.228

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• Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is not far from you. But as you are a Christian, in the name of that Saviour, who was filled with bitterness and made druken with wormwood, I conjre you to have recourse in frequent prayer to 'his God and your God,' the God of mercies, and father of all comfort. Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity; the unconscious instrument of Divine Providence knows it not, and your mother is in heaven.

  Charles Lamb

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1935). “The Letters of Charles Lamb: To which are Added Those of His Sister, Mary Lamb. Edited by E.V. Lucas”

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• Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Causes, Chance

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1996). “Bulletin”

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• You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and treated all individual beings of the same species with perfect equality. ...for it is an act of great and perfect goodness that He gave us existence; and the creation of the controlling faculty in animals is a proof of His mercy towards them, as has been shown by us.

  Maimonides

  Animal, Mercy Of God, Perfect

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.12, 1190.

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• Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

  Geneen Roth

  Meditation, Mind, Desire

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• May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

  Michael Servetus

  Errors, May, Obstinacy

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• The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

  Washington Allston

  Proud, Fool

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.171, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of our homes, the order and serenity of our minds, the spirit of patience and tender mercy in our hearts. Then will even the merest drudgery of duty cease to humble us, when we transfigure it by the glory of our own spirit.

  James Martineau

  Home, Heart, Humble

  James Martineau (1844). “Endeavors After the Christian Life: A Volume of Discourses”, p.37

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• The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Wheels, Pity

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Writing, Vowels, Pewter

  1955 Poems and Essays,'Survey of Literature'.

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• Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like a predatory beast which seeks to be satiated by devouring them, for the people fall into two categories: they are either your brethren in faith or your kindred in creation.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Kindness, Fall, Heart

  "Nahj al-Balagha". "Nahj al-Balagha" by Ali ibn Abi Talib. Letter 53: An order to Malik Al-Ashtar,

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• If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

  James Merrick

  Prayer, Grace, Wish

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• Dear lost sinner, if you are a wicked sinner, yet you do not have to die and go to Hell forever. If you are a criminal or a harlot, a blasphemer, a drunkard, a convict, or a dope fiend, God does not want you to go to Hell. People do not go to Hell simply because they are sinners. Rather they go because they will not repent of their sins! If you today will confess your sins to God, and in your poor, helpless heart, will, as far as you know how, turn away from your sin, God will have mercy and will forgive and save.

  John R. Rice

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.109, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.

  Clark Ashton Smith

  Death, Memories, Fall

  Clark Ashton Smith, “The Unremembered”

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• Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

  John Milton

  Justice, May, Thee

  John Milton, Samuel Johnson, John Evans (1799). “Milton's Paradise lost: with the life of the author ; to which is prefixed the celebrated critique by Sam Johnson LLD.”, p.283

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