Merciful Quotes

Alexander is as gentle after victory as he is terrible in the field.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.

It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.

O ye who believe!...do not kill yourselves, for truly Allah has been to you Most Merciful. If any do that in rancor and injustice, soon shall We cast him into the Fire...

I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

When you see fair hair Be pitiful.

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets

Let us be merciful as well as just.

We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.