Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will not cry for mercy.”

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

God is most angry when he shows no anger. God keep us from this mercy. This kind of mercy is worse than all other kind of misery.

At the end of the day, you either want or you don’t want to know about it. It’s a mercy thing – you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair

Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focused on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character of love.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

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?

They have no hope of death, and their darkened life is so mean that they are envious of every other fate. Earth allows no mention of them to exist: mercy and justice reject them: let us not talk of them, but look and pass.

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

The Lord’s mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.

To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.

Mercy surpasses justice.

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.

Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

I get frightened myself when I think of close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruelest monsters ever to stalk the earth. And all because they’re Jews

Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.