Mercy Quotes - Page 22

• When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words have meaning, regardless of our particular faith or moral philosophy. They appeal to common standards we all are expected to understand and accept, standards without which we could not live any common life at all.

  Matthew Scully

  Philosophy, Compassion, Evil

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.296, Souvenir Press

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• I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die [Hebrews 9:27], do make and ordain this my last will and testament...Principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it: and my body I recommend to the earth . . . nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mercy and power of God. . .

  John Hancock

  Memories, Men, Knowing

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• First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and devote the same to the supreme head of the Universe - to that great and tremendous Jehovah, - Who created the universal frame of nature, worlds, and systems in number infinite . . . To this awfully sublime Being do I resign my spirit with unlimited confidence of His mercy and protection . . .

  Henry Knox

  Thinking, Numbers, Soul

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• It is good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go. There are so many moments in life when you are free to pray. When you are waiting for the cashier in the supermarket, getting mad because he or she doesn't hurry, say a little prayer: 'Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.' Take that prayer with you wherever you go.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Prayer, Mad

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• When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Desire, Praying

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life”, p.51, YWAM Publishing

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• When prayers are strongest, mercies are nearest.

  Edward Reynolds

  Prayer, Strongest

  Edward Reynolds (1838). “Israel's prayer in time of trouble: with God's gracious answer; an explication of the fourteenth chapter of Hosea, in seven sermons, preached upon days of solemn humiliation”, p.19

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• If you examine your life well, you will find many instances when God showed His unmistakable mercy to you. Trouble was brewing, but it passed you by for some reason. God delivered you. Acknowledge these and thank God, Who loves you.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Love You, Thank God, Trouble

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• Mary was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Sweet, Powerful

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• The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Queens, Heaven, Reign

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• Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive one another. There is a great need for this Christlike attribute in our families, in our marriages, in our wards and stakes, in our communities, and in our nations.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Community, Forgiving, Needs

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• Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Blessing, Needs, Arms

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• As we learn in [the] scriptures, the fundamental purposes for the gift of agency were to love one another and to choose God. Thus we become God's chosen and invite His tender mercies as we use our agency to choose God.

  David A. Bednar

  Agency, Purpose, Use

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• Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.

  Matthew Henry

  Hands, Justice, Hands Of God

  Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1834). “A commentary upon the holy Bible: Isaiah to Malachi”, p.388

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• I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Believe, I Believe, Believe In Me

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'It's hard to kill. Maybe that's why his hand was shaking'". Interview with Kamila Shamsie, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2013.

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• Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy represents not receiving what we do deserve because of the patience, love, and atonement of the Master.

  Brent L. Top

  Kindness, Blessing, Compassion

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• Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Humble, Order, Grace

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• We mirror God's mercy to us when we forgive another.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  Mirrors, Forgiving

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• Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Heart, Sacrifice

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• If there is anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that if you go around the world with friendly look, one does good friends.

  Philip Gibbs

  Hate, Good Friend, Justice

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• A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Powerful, Earth

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.105, Macmillan

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• Keys to Finding Hope: 1. Hope depends upon taking care that we have at least two alternatives, in every situation we find ourselves, and with every task confronting us. 2. In any situation, no matter how much we may feel we are at the mercy of vast forces out there, that are totally beyond our control, we can always find something that is within our control, however small, and work on that. 3. Nothing that happens to us is just senseless and meaningless. In the context of our total life, it will eventually turn out to have meaning.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Keys, Two, Tasks

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• I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is economy. The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership.

  Laozi

  Humility, Generosity, Treasure

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings which, through Jesus Christ Our Lord, He had conferred on my beloved country in her emancipation and on myself in permitting me, under circumstances of mercy, to live to the age of 89 years, and to survive the fiftieth year of independence, adopted by Congress on the 4th of July 1776.

  Charles Carroll of Carrollton

  Country, Jesus, 4th Of July

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• The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  World, Prison, Miserable

  Warren W. Wiersbe (1983). “Live Like a King”, Moody Pub

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• The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control. My heart aches for America and its deceived people. The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. In Jonah's day, Nineveh was the lone world superpower-wealthy, unconcerned, and self-centered. When the Prophet Jonah finally traveled to Nineveh and proclaimed God's warning, people heard and repented. I believe the same thing can happen once again, this time in our nation. It's something I long for.

  Billy Graham

  Believe, Heart, Self

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