Catholic Bishops Quotes

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

The essence of justice is mercy.

To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

Punishment should have a redemptive quality to it.

A man will show no mercy, and then plead to God for mercy!

I even opposed the death penalty for the man who killed my brother .

The abolition of death penalty would give more opportunities for pastoral work with those who have stumbled and for the latter to repent. It is also evident that punishment by death cannot be reformatory; it also makes misjudgement irreparable

The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.

there is no glory in punishing

Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.

It brings hope and peace of mind knowing that God gave His only begotten Son for us. I'm able to look back and know that on this day Jesus was born and gave us the opportunity to have eternal life.

I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.

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

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

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.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.