Quotes of: Mercy Keyword

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

I know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when grace dances, I should dance.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

One may be "outside" the church, but one can never be "outside" of God's love.

A Wideness in God's Mercy: The Finality Of Jesus Christ In A World Of Religions

The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous, and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I'm deserving of God's mercy, I'll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard.

Matisyahu

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

Donald Cargill

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

John Piper

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

Saint Ambrose

Psalm 57:1--Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.

Hawk

Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Altamirano: With an orchestra, the Jesuits could have subdued the whole continent. So it was that the Indians of the Guarani were brought finally to account to the everlasting mercy of God, and to the short-lived mercy of man.

The Mission

Orphan: Lighten up Mercy! Stop lookin' for trouble! Orphan Leader: Should have slapped your mouth the moment you opened it! Mercy: So who stopped you!

The Warriors

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

Bruce Beresford

Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.

Dead Man's Ransom

We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.

The Attributes of God: A Journey Into the Father's Heart

I'm saying the American way is to overcome, to conquer, to come out on top. And we do it by spending and eating and screwing our women harder than anyone else. That's all I'm saying.

The Mercy Seat: A Play

And your fear boils my fu*king blood Angel, makes me fu*king hungry, do you know that? ~Sade~

No Mercy ~ A Darker Continuation

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith