When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner’s side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner’s side. It isn’t that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is...

Everything a baptized person does every day should be directly or indirectly related to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.

Heaven is the only place where prayers are not made.

A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named.

If you cannot pray, simply recite Lord’s Prayer (Psalm 23:1-6):-A psalm of David. New International Version1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. 2 He makes me lie down in green...

Beginning in 1519 and continuing until the end of his life, Luther expounded a theme that the Sacrament brings and means a fellowship of love and mercy: “This fellowship sonsists in this, that all the...

You would — you would take him into Your heaven, my lord?” asked Ingrey in astonishment and outrage. “He slew, not in defense of his own life, but in malice and madness. He tried to...

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.

Are we going to Portland?” I asked. “Or Multnomah Falls?”He smiled at me. “Go to sleep.”I waited three seconds. “Are we there yet?”His smile widened, and the last of the usual tension melted from his...

Nay, in many cases open denials of prayer prove the most excellent answers, and God’s not hearing us is the most signal audience. Therefore at the foot of every prayer subscribe “thy will be done,”...

Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not a word was said in favor of liberty. Not the slightest intimation that...

The defiance of the good atheist hurled at an apparently ruthless and idiotic cosmos is really an unconscious homage to something in or behind that cosmos which he recognizes as infinitely valuable and authoritative: for...

So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief;Verily, with every difficulty there is relief.Therefore, when thou art free (from thine immediate task), still labour hard,And to thy Lord turn [all] thy attention.

There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.

What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been...

Mercy reflects the presence of the Lord in your heart and your life.

Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak.

Bring her to her feet!”They jumped toward Viola who I avoidedlooking at as they helped her up and movedher to her noose. Instead, I looked back tothe crowd and, yep, you guessed it, kept right...

I’ll tell Hawke you want to go on daily bonding runs with him.

The ones who take human circumstances too personally will eventually be left outside mercy

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

I feel grace. Warm and flowing like a river, it pours over me. I am awash in grace and cannot help but raise my face to it as I would the sun. I want to...

In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it...

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier – he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim...

Grace cannot be confused with righteousness. Grace is receiving what we do not deserve; mercy is not receiving what we do deserve. Righteousness, on the other hand, includes what most of us would consider difficult...

The only duty you owe is to yourself and to your family.The duty you owe to yourself is to do the best you can, and the duty you owe to your family is to endeavor...

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection...

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...

-she walked into her bathroom, stripped, and entered the shower.The door opened a minute later to expose Riley standing there, beer in hand.Scraping damp strands of red off her face, she glared at him. “I...

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

The time’s gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy’s all very well but after all it’s justice that clinches the bargain.

We’re at the mercy of Mother Nature. We have to be adaptable and overcome situations, whatever we get.

A broken soul doesn’t invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.

With mercy and sympathy, no one will hate to love one another.

What can you do how much can you give to bring grace and salvation unto even one soul

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.’ These men without possessions or power, these strangers on Earth, these sinners, these followers of Jesus, have in their life with him renounced their own dignity,...

The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like a flowing river of release. What happens will happen anyways,...

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today — gluttony, fornication,...

The LORD GOD is a shelter from the heat.The LORD GOD is a refuge from the storm.

In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder duty left undone?In her contempt and dread of yielding to mere amorous weakness had she stifled...

When you’re talking loud enough to wake the dead?” She swore she could feel steam coming out her ears.

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.

The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice

Suppose it should turn out that no such person as Christ ever lived. What harm would that do justice or mercy? Wouldn’t the tear of pity be as pure as now, and wouldn’t justice, holding...

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

In the arms of Your mercy I find rest’cause You know just how far the east is from the westFrom one scarred hand to the other

If you haven’t walked in someone else’s shoes, it’s difficult to know the fit, so be kind and compassionate.