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Often appears with: equity, mercy, and pardon · justice as a virtue · treatment of wives · the nature and attributes of God · spiritual longing · sin, guilt, and repentance · rejection of merits · reconciliation in marriage · providence and divine governance · prayer and worship · marriage and betrothal · law and despair
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“If ye do good and keep from evil, lo! Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.” Ali, Abdullah Yusuf; Pickthall, Marmaduke William; Shakir, M. H., Three translations of the Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by · precept
“VIII. But though the iniquity and condemnation of us all are confirmed by the testimony of the law, this is not done (at least if we properly profit by it) in order to make us sink into despair, and fall over the precipice of despondency.” Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) · insight
“Hope can have no other object than faith; and the only object of faith, we have very clearly stated to be the mercy of God; to which both its eyes, if I may be allowed the expression, ought to be directed.” Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) · insight
“And that is (which many men would little think) in that he provided hell. For I suppose very surely, cousin, that many a man--and woman, too--of whom some now sit, and more shall hereafter sit, full gloriously crowned in heaven, had they not first been afraid of hell, would never have set foot toward heaven.” Sir Thomas More, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation · insight
Aquinas begins the next set of inquiries on God’s justice and mercy, listing four questions: whether justice exists in God, whether justice is truth, whether mercy exists, and whether every divine work includes both.
things; and the reason why some things are better than others, is that God wills for them a greater good. Hence it follows that He loves more the better things. Reply Obj. 1: God loves Christ not only more than He loves the whole human race, but more than He loves the entire created universe: because He willed for Him the greater good in giving Him "a name that is above all names," in so far as He was true God. Nor …
Calvin argues that the law’s verdict should not drive believers into despair; rather, God concludes all in unbelief so they learn dependence on God’s mercy in Christ.
sweeter; and his mercy, which confers it on us, more amiable; from which we learn that he is never wearied with repeating his blessings and loading us with new favours. VIII. But though the iniquity and condemnation of us all are confirmed by the testimony of the law, this is not done (at least if we properly profit by it) in order to make us sink into despair, and fall over the precipice of despondency. It is true …
Calvin argues that Scripture sometimes uses faith and hope interchangeably because hope nourishes faith, while he rejects the idea that hope should rest on merits instead of God’s mercy.
our ears. Here faith must be supported by the patience of hope, and kept fixed on the contemplation of eternity, that it may consider “a thousand years as one day.”(1601) XLIII. On account of this union and affinity, the Scripture sometimes uses the words faith and hope without any distinction. For when Peter says that we “are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed,”(1602) he att…
It orders Muslims not to abandon one’s wife “as in suspense,” urges justice and reconciliation, and repeatedly affirms God’s authority and forgiveness, including guidance about inheritance-related ethics and household fairness.
wish (to do so). But turn not altogether away (from one), leaving her as in suspense. If ye do good and keep from evil, lo! Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful. S: And you have it not in your power to do justice between wives, even though you may wish (it), but be not disinclined (from one) with total disinclination, so that you leave her as it were in suspense; and if you effect a reconciliation and guard (against ev…
Anthony argues that God’s “provision” of hell is merciful because fear of it leads some toward heaven, and he urges readers to imagine heaven’s joys as stronger motivation than dread alone.
mind of the joys of heaven, the pleasure of which we should be more glad to get than we should be to flee and escape all the pains of hell. But surely God is marvellous merciful to us in the thing in which he may seem most rigorous. And that is (which many men would little think) in that he provided hell. For I suppose very surely, cousin, that many a man--and woman, too--of whom some now sit, and more shall hereaft…