Mercy Quotes - Page 21

• There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Fetters, Ifs

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons (1842). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone, with a Life of the Poet”, p.84

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• O good Jesu Thou has bound my heart in the thought of Thy Name, and now I can not but sing it; therefore have mercy upon me, making perfect that Thou hast ordained.

  Richard Rolle

  Heart, Names, Perfect

  Richard Rolle (of Hampole) (1920). “The Fire of Love”

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• Let not therefore thy heart be troubled, neither let it fear. Trust in me, and put thy confidence in my mercy. When thou thinkest thyself farthest off from me, oftentimes I am nearest unto thee. When thou countest almost all to be lost, then oftentimes the greatest gain of reward is close at hand. All is not lost, when any thing falleth out contrary. Thou oughtest not to judge according to present feeling; nor so to take any grief, or give thyself over to it.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Grief, Heart, Hands

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• Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Satan, Disappoint

  Saint John Chrysostom (1842). “The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople: On the Statues, Or to the People of Antioch”, p.354

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• He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

  Julius Caesar

  Conquer, Show Me, Shows

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• There is no place in the kingdom of heaven for a divided heart. It is in the division that love is lost; and to lose My love, My child, is to lose what cannot be regained. For a loving heart is a vessel of light and mercy. It is a receptacle into which I pour My grace. It is untarnished by avarice and indifferent to the call of worldly ambition.

  Frances J Roberts

  Children, Heart, Ambition

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• The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fool, Infinite, Scoundrels

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• Mercy is "stronger and more God-like than vengeance".

  Helen Prejean

  Stronger, Vengeance

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2017

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• English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons.

  Karl Marx

  Years, Law, Two

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• The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Law, Causes, Weak

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.

  Stephen Levine

  Healing, Judgment, Awareness

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• I mean these are universal themes. I try not to preach, for sure. I don't enjoy movies that preach - so I don't want to preach myself when I tell stories because I just feel all of these themes are built into us in terms of redemption and mercy and love and compassion and all these things. And the negative sides, as well.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Mean, Compassion, Trying

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• If as we accept God is the perfect epitome of justice, mercy, goodness, and compassion, then our efforts to define the divine will through Sharia should be predicated on achieving a result that is merciful compassionate.

  Mark Durie

  Compassion, Perfect, Justice

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Character, Adversity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.680, Library of Alexandria

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• For it is said, "You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him," that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need.

  Maimonides

  Fall, Community, Needs

  "Mishneh Torah". Book by Maimonides, Book 7 (Sefer Zera'im "Seeds"), Treatise 2 (Mattenot Aniyiim "Laws of obligatory gifts to the poor"), Chapter (Perek) 10, Halacha 7,

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• If you are going to err, err on the side of mercy.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Sides, Ifs

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• Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.

  William Tyndale

  Wise, Jesus, Men

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• We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Levels, Greater, Highest

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• There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.

  John Henry Newman

  Perseverance, Taken, Humble

  John Henry Newman (1907). “Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman”, Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton, Mifflin [c1907]

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• Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Two, People, Sublime

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• Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

  Tom Araya

  San Francisco, People, Surfing

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• In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Forget, Lord

  John Bunyan (1771). “Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners ... The twelfth edition, with his character”, p.137

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• Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

  Dante Alighieri

  Passion, Soul, Noble

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• We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment

  John Calvin

  Hands, One Day, Scripture

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.814, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a minimum of one thousand advertisements a day. To say "no" to the most outrageous commercials is an act of responsibility that needs to be taught early and often.

  Haki R. Madhubuti

  Mistake, Responsibility, Views

  Haki R. Madhubuti (2002). “Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men : Affirmations, Meditations, Readings, and Strategies”

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