Mercy proverbs

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◆ I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

- Carl Sagan99

◆ The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?

- Gordon B. Hinckley99

◆ there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.

- Khaled Hosseini99

◆ It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

- Voltaire99

◆ I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)

- Anonymous99

◆ Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.

- Patricia Briggs99

◆ Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

- Sue Monk Kidd99

◆ I know you love me. The question is, how much?

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.

- Patricia Briggs99

◆ For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

- G.K. Chesterton99

◆ I regard myself as the most wretched of all men, stinking and covered with sores, and as one who has committed all sorts of crimes against his King. Overcome by remorse, I confess all my wickedness to Him, ask His pardon and abandon myself entirely to Him to do with as He will. But this King, filled with goodness and mercy, far from chastising me, lovingly embraces me, makes me eat at His table, serves me with His own hands, gives me the keys of His treasures and treats me as His favorite. He talks with me and is delighted with me in a thousand and one ways; He forgives me and relieves me of my principle bad habits without talking about them; I beg Him to make me according to His heart and always the more weak and despicable I see myself to be, the more beloved I am of God.

- Brother Lawrence98

◆ Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

- Horace Mann98