#merciful

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#be kind #born #cannot #consistency #courage

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people? ↗

— John Clayton

#am #campus #college #death #every

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#despair #every #god #merciful #much

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#alike #chiefly #endures #however #intensity

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.' These men without possessions or power, these strangers on Earth, these sinners, these followers of Jesus, have in their life with him renounced their own dignity, for they are merciful. As if their own needs and their own distress were not enough, they take upon themselves the distress and humiliation of others. They have an irresistible love for the down-trodden, the sick, the wretched, the wronged, the outcast and all who are tortured with anxiety. They go out and seek all who are enmeshed in the toils of sin and guilt. No distress is too great, no sin too appalling for their pity. If any man falls into disgrace, the merciful will sacrifice their own honour to shield him, and take his shame upon themselves. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#god #grace #guilt #jesus #merciful

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them. ↗

— Jose Bergaman

#forget #instead #merciful #more #perhaps

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#best #cared #characteristics #compassionate #ensure

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#dark #drew #i #like #me

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong. ↗

— Henry Newbolt

#merciful #princes #proud #strong

If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#attachment #break #bring #confidence #draw