Mercy Quotes

Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.

~ Mango Wodzak

Certain actions bring harm, other more wizened actions bring harmony.

~ Mango Wodzak

GOD HAS NOT MERCY AND NOR WILL I' - The Midnight Heir (The Bane Chronicles, 4) by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan

~ Cassandra Clare

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will not cry for mercy.

~ J.c. Ryle

But mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice.

~ Brent Weeks

Matt Smith? I said. Really? You are not the Doctor, Bran. At your age, it is important to keep a lookout for excessive hubris.

~ Patricia Briggs

Don't kill me,' said the knight. 'I yield. I yield. You can't kill a man at mercy.'Lancelot put up his sword and went back from the knight, as if he were going back from his own soul. He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.'Get up,' he said. 'I won't hurt you. Get up, go.'The knight looked at him, on all fours like a dog, and stood up, crouching uncertainly.Lancelot went away and was sick.

~ T.h. White

Supplication is to implore God for mercy and compassion, to have pity upon you or to grant you the request given and expect that He will do it.

~ Robin Bertram

…but I guess you can never wash anything completely away, not from this dark glass of a world, and now I saw them again, a tangle of names overlying one another, and looking at them was like listening to the dead speak and sing and cry out for mercy.

~ Stephen King

Sometimes due to God’s mercy, the time in God’s plan can be stretched or extended

~ Sunday Adelaja

It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.

~ Eoin Colfer

I hear, Yes, Let us more education invest!Whilst destitute, Outside their gates doth rest,Women, children, and men, Poor and a hungered!Odd that colleges fill, Yet mercy is numbered.

~ Kari L. Greenaway

And there he would either be mercifully annihilated or live forever, insane and yet conscious inside It's homicidal endless formless hungry being.

~ Stephen King

Lightning has no mercy.

~ Victoria Aveyard

There is a tension in the Bible between justice and mercy, between the Old Testament and the New Testament. And the New Testament says you can never be good enough: goodness is the thing, and you can never live up to it. The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.

~ Paul Kalanithi

Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.

~ Janny Wurts

I committed mistakes many times, fall short, tempted and diverted but able to reconfigure my direction because of God's loving mercy.

~ Nathaniel E. Quimada

Our heavenly Father is great in mercy,He feeds and clothes us everyday, We will worship and humbly learn from himFor our Lord clothes the grass of the field.

~ Brother Yun

Her eyes widened as he guided her backward until she was trapped against the bed. He turned her around so that she faced it.“You remember when we met, how you told me off in your office? Ever since then, I’ve wanted something.” He smoothed his hands up her legs and pushed up her skirt. With one sharp tug, he ripped her lacy thong and tossed it to the floor. “You at my mercy.”He heard the excited catch of her breath and bent his head to murmur in her ear. “Good thing you still have those heels on.

~ Julie James

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do no be too eager to deal out death in judgment.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.

~ Matthew Henry

Predators did not need mercy.

~ Conn Iggulden

It is a beautiful offering to Me when you lay down your judgement and choose compassion. When you love others the way I love you, when you hold back the consequences they could have deserved, and when you treat them the way you’d like to be treated, the you shall receive mercy as well.

~ Angela Thomas

And fear nothing, dear soul, whoever you are; the greater the sinner, the greater his right to Your mercy, O Lord.

~ Maria Faustina Kowalska

When our God who is Mercy comes like a shout into your darkness, when the Father stoops down and tenderly picks up the pieces of your broken life, when Jesus steps in front of what you could have deserved, and when the the Lord of Heaven says, “I still want you,” after you thought no one would, it is the most amazing truth of all. I have been overwhelmed by this lavish kingdom gift called Mercy.

~ Angela Thomas

Does it kill them? I don't want to be killing Americans whatsoever, Jeffrey.

~ Brad Mckinniss

Mercy is God’s loving response to sinners; and mercy is our loving response to others—and to ourselves—in circumstances of need. To this I would add that mercy, as an experience of love, has an unexpected quality—something unforeseen or unanticipated. We talk about mercy when we feel or offer forgiveness, when we find or give help and assistance, but we also speak about “mercy” when we are surprised by good deeds that catch us unawares and transform our lives for the better.

~ Mathew N. Schmalz

Tenderness, mercy and love, we all need more of.

~ Heather Wolf

God had mercy, he knew. The Mongols had none.

~ Conn Iggulden

Shaytan will tell you that you’re not worthy, so give up. But his traps are based on lies. When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds.

~ Yasmin Mogahed

One day a year let’s all pretendthat death is tucked up, fast asleep.That no lives meet a tragic end,no dreams are shattered on the cheap.The world’s at peace, there are no wars,we hug our friend, our former foe.No beggars die outside locked doors,all cells are empty on death row.Nobody’s stabbed, nobody’s shot,no car runs over someone’s friend.This can’t be true! – Well, maybe not.All I’m saying is: let’s pretend.

~ Stig Dagerman

Sometimes we pray earnestly, other times we only make a slight mention of a thing and with great expectation, we await the answers to our request. Yet, we are blown away at the fulfillment of the very thing for which we pulled on heaven. You know why? In those moments we see the magnanimity of GOD's unfailing mercy to undeserving men like us.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

The definition of Ar-Rahman: The fact that we only take from Allah and He only gives, we never thank but He still gives, we rarely remember Him but He still increases in love for us.

~ Nouman Ali Khan

You want to be merciful. To stand in the light. I understand it. I admire it. But, my queen...Only the victors can be merciful.

~ Joe Abercrombie

Every time the Lord grants you His mercy and favor, doors will be opened for you.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When the mercy of God comes into the life of a person, he increases and succeeds in all things.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The reality is that we are in the hands of an angry God, who in His abounding mercy and love has given us a way out of what we so rightly deserve; Hell, the Lake of Fire and endless eternities without His presence!

~ Billy Witt

Her eyes narrowed when no one bothered to introduce themselves. Even her father just gave a curt nod and kissed Mercy on the cheek before going to his mate. She looked at Bas. “Did you four gang up on Riley?”Absolute silence in the kitchen except for her mother ’s exasperated breath. “Michael T. Smith, I told you to leave the boy alone.”The “boy” held her tighter against him, obviously not the least bit worried. “I’m fine, Mrs. Smith. And I have a sister, too.”Lia turned her gaze on Riley. “Good God, Mercy. You brought another one into the family?

~ Nalini Singh

Her eyes narrowed when no one bothered to introduce themselves. Even her father just gave a curtnod and kissed Mercy on the cheek before going to his mate. She looked at Bas. “Did you four gangup on Riley?”Absolute silence in the kitchen except for her mother ’s exasperated breath. “Michael T. Smith, I toldyou to leave the boy alone.”The “boy” held her tighter against him, obviously not the least bit worried. “I’m fine, Mrs. Smith.And I have a sister, too.”Lia turned her gaze on Riley. “Good God, Mercy. You brought another one into the family?

~ Nalini Singh

Some of God's greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes.

~ Elisabeth Elliot