Even the disciples, who at times could be dense as bricks, realized that the true neighbor was the one who showed mercy to a stranger.

Divine punishment are also mercies.

The oligarchs do not care what justice is, only what seems just. They do not care what mercy is, only what appears merciful. Thus justice and mercy will always escape them.

The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the...

Compassion is not a sometime action; it’s an every time passion! You can’t be compassionate for less than 7 days in one week… That’s first class hypocrisy!

Every time someone reaches out to you, even if it’s to point out your sin and they seem to be judging you, it is a token of God’s mercy. He sees the past, present, and...

May you follow the path of light.

I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a...

Good God, Mercy. You brought another one into the family?

When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and gratitude. Sovereignty is only tyrannical if it is unbounded by goodness; holiness is...

We will never become the people of hope and blessing we’re meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in...

We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing...

War has to have some decorum. Otherwise it’s back to the Bleakening for all of us, and Kresimir be damned.

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Mercy will we overcome thisOh one by one could we turn it aroundMaybe carry on just a little bit longerAnd I try to give you what you need

We have been redeemed from darkness to the light. So we must live as people of light!

Maybe Manny can take Espinosa for his roadwork or as an adviser. As we all know, Manny shows no mercy even with his sparring partners

Keep out of this,” Lucian said. “I’m not smiting anybody.””You’re showing mercy.” Catch-a-Tick nodded. “That’s heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

We’ve had a tough couple of weeks of practice. But for four quarters on the Mercy side, that was a well-played, well-focused game.

Adam didn’t approve of Wal-Mart.

A Sunrise is God’s way of saying, “Let’s start again.

If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land. They were not allowed to spare trembling and white-haired age, nor dimpled babes...

There are only two things really that even the best of best human beings crave -redemption and revenge. Lucky for me, both meant the same things.

The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. “He that hath seen Me hath seen the...

That means that Cuba is a great team because if not it would have lost many times under the mercy rule. But that’s only happened twice. Our second-line pitchers did not come through and we...

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement....

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

Merciful God. Faithful God.

I’ll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.

Nope, I haven’t grown a cock in the last few minutes. I have no need to prove whose is bigger.

God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

Mine is what she is.

I am not posing these questions only to the world at large. I query us who own Christ as our life. Can God be pleased by the vast and increasing inequities among us? Is he...

For most of my life I have thought of grace as a hope of a bright tomorrow in spite of the darkness of today–and this is true. In this way we are all like Pamela,...

Mercy is just when it is rooted in hopefulness and freely given. Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving. The people who haven’t earned it, who haven’t even...

Why should he be spared?”Someone ought to be.’ And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if...

In the tabernacle of grace, all your obstacles will be tackled. Wake up to see it happen live. You are victorious in all things!

There’s more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior — the best warrior — isn’t cruel or mean. He doesn’t claw an enemy who can’t fight back. Where’s the honor in that?

The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of...

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

For crissakes, you’re the frickin’ poster boy for DarkRiver with your ‘Gee, shucks, I’m harmless’ act.”Dorian was used to being ribbed about his looks. With his blond hair and blue eyes, he looked more like...

One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.

When Jesus was wrapping up his days on earth, he didn’t tell us to go to church. He didn’t tell us to engage in a spiritualized version of channel surfing, as we hop from place...

To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every father must discipline His children, and paternal discipline is itself...

Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one...

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

High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.