Best mercy & attributes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber

“Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.”

People Persons Simple Brain Mercy Clouds Attributes Electricity Temperament Drifting

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.”

Heart Happiness Humanity Strong Gratitude All Things Mercy Affection Breathe Code Attributes True Happiness Benevolence

Book:Oliver Twist; or, The parish boy's progress

Source: Oliver Twist; or, The parish boy's progress

“Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.”

Heaven Grace Mankind Mercy Attributes Darling Boundless Grace And Mercy

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations

“We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.”

Giving May Equal Mercy Forgiving Attributes Deities

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes

“When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.”

Trying Doe Sides Justice Beats Mercy Sinner Justify Attributes Pleading Attributes Of God

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive one another. There is a great need for this Christlike attribute in our families, in our marriages, in our wards and stakes, in our communities, and in our nations.”

Needs Nations Community Mercy Forgiving Obligation Our Family Attributes Stakes Reach Out Pardon Our Community

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.”

“God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.”

Humans Justice Sin Race Eternal Glory Mercy Salvation Punishment Human Race Merit Attributes Display Damnation Predestination Attributes Of God

Author:John Calvin

“I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.”

Men Heart Reason Life Is Understanding Judgment Highest Hatred Mercy Cruelty Saving Attributes Pleading

Author:Clarence Darrow

“Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.”

God Eye Justice Equal Mercy Attractive Attributes Attractiveness

Book:The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell

Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell

“Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.”

Life God Success Justice Equal Mercy Shining Attributes Brilliance Attributes Of God

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.”

Love Mercy Beloved Attributes Offenders

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.”

Whole Bears Forgiveness Mercy Fruit Impression Attributes

Book:The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path

Source: The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path

“The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.”

Heaven Mercy Attributes Headstone

Book:Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber

Source: Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber

“... there is clearly expressed for us? what it is we must attribute either to free will or to the decision and daily assistance of the Lord. We are characterized by whether we respond zealously or lackadaisically to the kindly dispensations of God. This perspective is plainly expressed in the healing of the two blind men. Jesus was passing by, a fact made possible by God's provident grace. And the achievement of their own faith and belief was to cry out 'Lord, son of David, have mercy on us' (Mt. 20:31). The restored sight of their eyes is the gift of divine mercy.”

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