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Mercy

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.--Cervantes
And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.--Micah 6:8 (NIV)
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust,
Let us be merciful as well as just.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Tales of a Wayside Inn)
Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be treated mercifully.--Matthew 5:7 (God's Word Version)
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.--Sir Thomas Browne (Religio Medici)
Clemency is the support of justice.--Russian Proverb
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.--Arnold J. Toynbee (The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue)
Do not let mercy and truth leave you. Fasten them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will find favor and much success in the sight of God and humanity.--Proverbs 3: 3-4 (God's Word Version)
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve and Mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve...--Dan Roberts
The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy;
And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory…--John Fletcher (Lover's Progress)
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.--Abraham Lincoln
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.--Kahlil Gibran ("Sayings" Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran)
A merciful person helps himself, but a cruel person hurts himself.--Proverbs 11: 17 (God's Word Version)
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars--not so sparkling and vivid as many, but dispensing a calm radiance that hallows the whole.--Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity.--Jeremy Taylor
Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.--William Blake
The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed--
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.--William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.--Wendell Berry
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.--John Bunyan
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.--Shakespeare (Titus Andronicus)
Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see,
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.--Alexander Pope (The Universal Prayer)
Too much mercy ... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.--Agatha Christie (The Halloween Party)
We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.--Jonis Agee (Sweet Eyes)
We are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be beaten and robbed as they make their journey through life. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.--Martin Luther King, Jr. (Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?)
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.--George Eliot (Adam Bede)
When a man has compassion for others, God has compassion for him.--Talmud
When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.--Chilon
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell
There God is dwelling too.--William Blake (Songs of Innocence)