Merciful Quotes - Page 9

• Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.

  Joaquin Miller

  Father, Rain, Sunshine

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• The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Issues, Have Faith

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.107, Macmillan

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• Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

  John Fletcher

  Wisdom, Hindsight, Form

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• Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality; men who think that they will be extinct a few years hence do not pray. In worship we spread out our insignificant life, which yet is the work of the Creator's hands, and the purchase of the Redeemer's blood, before the Eternal and All-Merciful, that we may learn the manners of a higher sphere, and fit ourselves for companionship with saints and angels, and for the everlasting sight of the face of God.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Prayer, Angel, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 457. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable... The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

  Ovadia Yosef

  Evil, World, Deeds

  "Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs", news.bbc.co.uk. April 10, 2001.

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• Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land" (Hosea 4:1). Yet in the midst of this tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes like a rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man.

  Pope Pius X

  Eye, Men, Land

  "A Treasury of Saints : 100 Saints : Their Lives and Times". Book by Malcolm Day, 2002.

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• While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.

  Timothy Keller

  Giving, Doubt, Want

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• Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's!

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Journey, Two, May

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• I think when someone blindly projects and it's showing up in the form of envy or hate - and I actually think they're synonymous - that's when I feel the most afraid and disconnected and vulnerable. Like whenever I don't feel safe in my own hands, in terms of my not being tender or merciful with myself, or when we're treating each other that way.

  Alanis Morissette

  Hate, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.

  Hudson Taylor

  Father, Shy, Littles

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• Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True zeal is merciful and mild,Can pity and forbear ;The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,And breathes revenge and war.

  John Newton

  Revenge, War, Fire

  John Newton (1877). “Olney hymns: in three books”, p.423

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• Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the quiet observer, sometimes the kid in the center of the messed-up carnival, these poems are the fireflies you’ve missed all winter, the longed-for return of the bees. Unaffected and inherently hopeful, Callihan’s work is as merciful as it is moving.

  Ada Limon

  Moving, Kids, Firefly

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• Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare; He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.

  Hannah More

  Children, Father, Suffering

  Hannah More (1811). “Practical Piety”, p.219

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• For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they should remain as they were before they received grace and mercy; but he condones and forgives both sin and death for the sake of Christ, who has fulfilled the whole Law in order thereby to make the heart sweet and through the Holy Spirit to kindle and move the heart to begin to love from day to day more and more.

  Martin Luther

  Sweet, Moving, Heart

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• To follow Jesus means to share his merciful love for every human being.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Mean, Share

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• God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Want, Praying

  Martin Luther (2009). “Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional”, p.238, Zondervan

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• Living Holy Week following Jesus means learning how to come out of ourselves to reach out to others, to go to the outskirts of existence, to be the first to move towards our brothers and sisters, especially those who are most distant, those who are forgotten, those who are most in need of understanding, consolation and help. There is so much need to bring the living presence of Jesus, merciful and full of love!

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Brother, Moving

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• Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

  Jules Renard

  Dream, Men, Window Panes

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.243, Tin House Books

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• The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive

  Timothy Keller

  Bears, Holy, Humanist

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• Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Love, God, Blessing

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• Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Distance, Blessed, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.127, Penguin

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• No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Imperfection, Doe, Needs

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• Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt. I am sure you have borne patiently the embarrassment you experienced because of what has happened. If the glory of the world is nothing but smoke, the contrary is a solid good, when it is accepted in the right way. I hope that great good will come to us from this humiliation.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, World, Way

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• Let us be merciful in our mental judgments of our brothers and sisters, for, in truth, we are all one, and the more deeply they seem to err, the more urgent is the need for us to help them with the right thought, and so make it easier for them to get free.

  Emmet Fox

  Brother, Needs, Helping

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• Therefore, as we strive to become as the Father is and as Jesus is, we are to become more gracious and merciful, more kind and considerate. Even more, we are to do this in a world which does little to encourage such qualities of character.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Character

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