• Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Proverbs 31:30.

• “What is God’s will is what comes to you each day.” St. Francis de Sales

• “It is the great mercy of God that He becomes the Father of those to whom He is first the creator.” St. Athanasius

• “Mercy, also, is a good thing, for it makes men perfect, in that it imitates the perfect Father. Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy”. St. Ambrose.

• “Everything that God does is born of His mercy and His clemency.” St. John Chrysostom.

• “I confess, O Lord, that thou art merciful in all Thine acts”. St. Augustine.

• “Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one; I died, and behold I am alive for evermore”. Rev. 1:17-18.

• Jesus told St. Faustina: “The loss of each soul plunges Me into mortal sadness.” (Diary 1397)

• “God’s mercy is not lacking to any of His works”. St. Augustine

• The Holy Eucharist is the “sacrament of mercy”. St. Augustine

• St. Benedict (d.547) taught that one should “never despair of God’s mercy”.

• Pope St. Gregory I (d.604) asked, “Are you a sinner? Then believe in His (God’s) mercy, that you may rise.”

• Today we are afraid to simple works like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in good old values anymore. And that is why the world is sick. Lin Yutang.

• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. Abraham Lincoln.

• The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith. Bertrand Russell.

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