For happy are the merciful for they shall, too, know mercy.
David Paul KirkpatrickHigh justice would in no way be debased
if ardent love should cancel instantly
the debts these penitents must satisfy.
Why should he be spared?'
'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.
The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.
Winston S. ChurchillTags: civilization grace mercy restraint
If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics," Ford said, "then something is the matter with politics.
Nancy GibbsTags: politics compassion mercy gerald-ford
Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out of pride, may claim their own authorities over what constitutes good and evil; they may self-proclaim a keen knowledge of subjective morality through religion or science. But that is only if they are acknowledging the work of evil as a cartoon-like, petty little rain cloud in the sky that merely wants to dampen one's spirits. On the contrary, a man could be without a doubt lit with the strength, the peace, and the knowledge of the gods, his gods, but when or if the devils grow weary in unsuccessful attempts to torment him, they begin tormenting his loved ones, or, if not his loved ones, anyone who may attempt to grasp his philosophies. No matter how godly he may become, God is, in the end, his only hope and his only grace for the pressures built around him - it is left up to a higher authority and a more solid peace and a wider love to eclipse not just one's own evils but all evils for goodness to ultimately matter. If all men were gods, each being would dwell in a separate prison cell, hopeless, before finally imploding into nothingness.
Criss JamiTags: science love devil morality philosophy peace evil god spiritual religion faith humility goodness grace prison hope mercy security sin good spirituality angels satan bad pride ego apologetics possession hopelessness demons spirits badness spirit-realm
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 is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.
John RuskinTags: judgment mercy expression effort imperfection vitality symmetry asymmetry
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.
Tags: god mercy islam quran allah relief abrahamic
Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.
J.E.B. SpredemannTags: beauty god grace mercy transformation wickedness ugliness
...there is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God.
J.E.B. SpredemannTags: god grace mercy secret forgiveness secrets omniscient all-knowing onmiscience unforgivable unforgiveness
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