36 Quotes About Mercy-of-god
- Author Conrad Hilton
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Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.
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- Author Mark Hopkins
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Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
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- Author Pope John Paul II
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Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.
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- Author Catherine McAuley
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The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.
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- Author George MacDonald
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I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.
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- Author Maimonides
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You will see the mercy of God toward His creatures, how He has provided that which is required, in proper proportions, and treated all individual beings of the same species with perfect equality. ...for it is an act of great and perfect goodness that He gave us existence; and the creation of the controlling faculty in animals is a proof of His mercy towards them, as has been shown by us.
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- Author Thomas Merton
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For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He who retires into silence does not necessarily hate language. Perhaps it is love and respect for language which imposes silence upon him. For the mercy of God is not heard in words unless it is heard, both before and after the words are spoken, in silence,
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- Author Thomas Merton
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Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.
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- Author J. C. Ryle
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
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