Mercy Quotes

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."

"Courage is grace under pressure."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude."

"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."

"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave."

"Without forgiveness, there is no future."

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."

"Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different."

"True forgiveness is when you can say, Thank you for that experience."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

"At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book."

"How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?"

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."

"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."

"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."

"There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."

"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."

"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."

"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."

"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."

"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."

"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace."

"A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace."

"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."

"Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring."

"Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character."

"Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice."

"I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well."

"My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved."

"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."

"The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced."

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

"I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness."

"But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion."

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

"Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace."

"Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it."

"In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come."

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."

"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well."