Top 329 Merciful Quotes & Sayings

And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.

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

Be merciful, moderate, and modest.

A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.

Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.

May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.

It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.

God is as just as he is merciful.

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

The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? Is it the fault of the merciful Father, whose wind of mercy is blowing without ceasing, day and night, whose mercy knows no decay, is it His fault that some of us are happy and some unhappy? We make our own destiny. His sun shines for the weak as well as for the strong. His wind blows for saint and sinner alike. He is the Lord of all, the Father of all, merciful, and impartial.

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou art not a child of your merciful Father; for otherwise thou wouldst be also as he, merciful. It is certainly true that we cannot show as great mercy to our neighbor, as God has to us; but it is the true work of the devil that we do the very opposite of mercy, which is a sure sign that there is not a grain of mercy in us.

My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

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

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power.

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

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

It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

I could be compassionate, if I wanted. Metias would be merciful. But I was never as good a person as my brother.

Both sin and sickness came into the world through the fall of the human race. Therefore, we must look for the healing of both in the savior of the human race. God is as willing to heal believers as He is to forgive unbelievers. Know this; if He was merciful enough to forgive you when you were unconverted, He is merciful enough to heal you now that you are in His family!

Jesus is the best clue we have as to what God is like and He is consistently gracious and merciful, especially to those who are failures. He is harsh to uptight, judgmental people, but merciful and gracious to the failures. He seems to draw out the smallest kernel of faith in each person that He's with. So, I presume that that's the way God is going to judge humanity.

I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.

Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all.

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

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

I contact Allah the Holy the Merciful on a daily basis.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

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

We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

There are people who, when they encounter inability to understand, do not ask the Lord. But one must immediately say, "Lord, I am a sinful man and I don't understand as I should. But give me understanding, merciful One, as to how I must proceed." And the merciful Lord then inspires them as to what to do and what not to do.

I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.

No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.

You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet.

Let us be merciful as well as just.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.