Book of Sirach Quotes

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

On seeing evildoers taken to the place of execution, he was wont to exclaim: "But for the grace of God there goes John Bradford.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

Forgiveness is up to God. I just hope we hurry up the meeting. And that’s the way I feel about him, really.

On this Good Friday, a day when we recall our Savior’s own execution, we appeal to all people of goodwill, and especially Catholics, to work to end the death penalty …. The death penalty offers the tragic illusion that we can defend life by taking life.

Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.

How could we claim to love our neighbour while at the same time praying for God to destroy them?

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

I think the people already know what they're doing wrong, and I certainly believe in Hell. But to me, when I see thousands of people before me, it just doesn't come out of me to say, 'You guys are terrible, and you're going to Hell.' I'd rather say that God is a God of mercy. You've got to live an obedient life, but for every mistake you've made, there's mercy there, and I believe we can do better.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.