"Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy"
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"Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful."
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"If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy."
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"God (in His mercy) accepts false coin."
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"God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge."
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"Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we."
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"Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise."
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"Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release."
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"God's mercy on you degenerate swine."
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"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy."
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"mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?"
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"The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own."
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"Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves."
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"God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous."
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"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it."
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"We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do."
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"Nothing can make injustice just but mercy."
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"Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings."
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"God's mercy is fresh and new every morning."
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"Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy."
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