Merciful Quotes

• Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life...The Church's very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love...Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instills in us the courage to look to the future with hope.

  Pope Francis

  Church, Foundation, New Life

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• The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Happiness, Success, Mind

  The Call of Cthulhu ch. 1 (1928)

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• Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Hands, Catholic, Deeds

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• That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Forgiveness, Hate

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• The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

  Khalil Gibran

  Appreciation, Heart, People

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• Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Sweet, Kindness

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.193

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• God will forgive you if you ask him to. Though your sins be numerous as the grains of sand on the shore, God’s merciful forgiveness is far greater than your sins. Do not be afraid. Trust in his love. Repent of your sins without delay and return to the house of the Father. He is waiting for you.

  Patrick Madrid

  Father, Waiting, House

  Patrick Madrid (2012). “A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.14, TAN Books

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• To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Acknowledge Him, Evil

  Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

  Maya Angelou

  Motivational, Running, Courage

  "Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.

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• Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God.

  Jonathan Morris

  Motivation, Compassion, People

  "Father Jonathan Morris talks about working with Mel Gibson, Fox News, self-help books and running The Catholic Channel on SiriusXM". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. June 2012.

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• The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience of human weakness, has had the humility to ask for his help, has been healed by him and has set out following closely after him, becoming a witness of the power of his merciful love that is stronger than sin and death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Humility, Stronger, Weakness

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• What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things.

  Saint Augustine

  Beautiful, God, Art

  Saint Augustine (2014). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

  Maya Angelou

  Courage, Practice, Bravery

  USA Today, March 5, 1988.

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• Again and again the Sermon on the Mount calls and challenges us to a life of radical discipleship. Note: when Jesus says 'Blessed are the . . . . merciful, peacmakers', and so on, he doesn't just mean that they themselves are blessed. He means that the blessing of God's kingdom works precisely through those people into the wider world. That is how God's kingdom comes. That's one thing to hear afresh.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Blessed, Mean

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Kind, Should

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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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• Let us be merciful as well as just.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mercy, Wells

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.807, Delphi Classics

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• Let there always be a preponderance of mercy with you, even though you don't feel such mercy in yourself, as God has for the world ... A cruel and merciless heart is never purified. A merciful man is the doctor of his own soul, because as it were a by a strong wind from is heart he drives out the darkness of the passions.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Salute

  Twitter post from Oct 08, 2014

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• A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, He Man, Timidity

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• It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a lovely, merciful thing to think, 'Actually, there is no path I can take without having my heart broken, so why not get on with it and stop wanting these extra-special circumstances which stop me from doing something courageous?'

  David Whyte

  Heart, Thinking, Broken

  "The Questions that Have No Right to Go Away" By David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Religious, Character, Opposites

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.56, Knickerbocker Classics

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• Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

  Matthew Scully

  Religious, Views, People

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• Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all.

  Matthew Scully

  Animal, Factories, Should

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• Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Kindness, Quality, And Love

  New York Times, October 2, 1910.

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