Merciful Quotes - Page 2

• Be merciful, moderate, and modest.

  Laozi

  Modesty, Modest, Moderates

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• To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

  William Pickens

  Men, Law, Psychology

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• Pray, hope and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Prayer, Worry, Anxiety

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• You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time that may be allowed you in this world: it behooves you most seriously to reflect upon your past conduct; to repent of your evil deeds, to be incessant in prayers to the great and merciful God to forgive your manifold transgressions and sins, to teach you to rely upon the merit and passion of a dear Redeemer.

  Thomas McKean

  Prayer, Passion, Past

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• The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character and love. The children of God are to manifest His glory. In their own life and character they are to reveal what the grace of God has done for them.

  Ellen G. White

  Children, Character, Light

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated”, p.328, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

  Martin Luther

  Father, Son, Men

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• Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fashion, Self, Dust

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

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• Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them and to do them honour simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I would commend the Jews. And if this is not enough, let him tell the Jews to use his mouth as a privy, or else crawl into the Jew's hind parts, and there worship the holy thing, so as afterwards to be able to boast of having been merciful, and of having helped the Devil and his progeny to blaspheme our dear Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Worst Enemy, Order, Dear Lord

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• Encompass with your mercy and compassion all animals and creatures. Do not say, "this is inanimate and has no awareness." Indeed, it does; it is you yourself who have no awareness! So let existence be as it is, and be merciful towards it with the mercifulness of the Creator in the midst of His creation.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Animal, Compassion, Doe

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• Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Men, Order, Soul

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• If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker, at least do not be a troublemaker. If you cannot be assiduous, at least in your thought be like a sluggard. If you are not victorious, do not exalt yourself over the vanquished. If you cannot close the mouth of a man who disparages his companion, at least refrain from joining him in this.- St. Isaac the Syrian

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Humility, Men, Joining

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• Karta (The Creator) and Karim (The beneficient) are the names of the same God.
  Razak (The provider) and Rahim (The merciful) are also the names given to Him.
  Let no man in his error wrangle over differences in names.
  Worship the One God who is the Lord of all. Know that his form is one and He is the One light diffused in all.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Men, Differences, Errors

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• The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked.

  Leila Aboulela

  Things In Life, Giving, Waiting

  Leila Aboulela (2011). “Lyrics Alley: A Novel”, p.280, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.

  Menno Simons

  Water, Grace, Swim

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• God is as just as he is merciful.

  Thomas Brooks

  Thomas Brooks (1808). “Apples of gold for young men and women: and a crown of glory for old men and women ... The twentieth edition”, p.131

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• As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon them the will of God is wrought as alone it can be; appearing at first sight bitter and ungracious, though in reality merciful and loving in the highest degree. To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Pain, Mean, Reality

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• Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward.  A good man will endure all things to honor Christ, and even dispose of the whole world, and all in it, to save his soul.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wise, Godly, Men

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• You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because we're all good people. That is a lie... God looks down and says 'I hate you, you are my enemy, and I will crush you,' and we say that is deserved, right and just, and then God says 'Because of Jesus I will love you and forgive you.' This is a miracle.

  Mark Driscoll

  Crush, Running, Jesus

  "Jesus Took Our Wrath (Propitiation),". Sermon preached at Mars Hill Church, November 6, 2005.

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• But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

  Joseph Heller

  Stupid, Believe, Mean

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

  Maya Angelou

  Practice, Important, Be Kind

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• Hope is one leg of a three-legged stool, together with faith and charity. These three stabilize our lives regardless of the rough or uneven surfaces we might encounter at the time... Hope in our Heavenly Father's merciful plan of happiness leads to peace, mercy, rejoicing, and gladness. The hope of salvation is like a protective helmet; it is the foundation of our faith and an anchor to our souls.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Anchors, Soul

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• Remember: in the end, it is the merciful who obtain mercy.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Remember, Mercy, Ends

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• My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Kings, Children, Promise

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• Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and finally how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Wall, Long, Experience

  Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.34, Algonquin Books

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• There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.

  Paul Washer

  Men, Weak, Man Of God

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