Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Mercy

Mercy

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.--Dalai Lama
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.--Winston Churchill
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)
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.--G. K. Chesterton
Clemency is the support of justice.--Russian Proverb
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.--Aberjhani (The River of Winged Dreams)
Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.-~Joan Chittister
Compassion is the chief law of human existence.--Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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)
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.--Joseph Campbell
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)
Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.--Douglas Pagels
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 given not to make us something other than ourselves but to make us radically ourselves. Grace is given not to implant in us a foreign wisdom but to make us alive to the wisdom that was born with us in our mother’s womb. Grace is given not to lead us into another identity but to reconnect us to the beauty of our deepest identity. And grace is given not that we might find some exterior source of strength but that we might be established again in the deep inner security of our being and in learning to lose ourselves in love for one another to truly find ourselves.--John Philip Newell (Christ of the Celts: the Healing of Creation)
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)
The greatest obstacle to compassion is not hatred. It is the habitual patterns of narrow self-interest. It is a way of seeing in which we pretend that we can be well simply by looking after ourselves.--John Philip Newell (The Rebirthing of God)
He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.--Thomas Adams
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.--Abraham Lincoln
It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.--Peter Kreeft (The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings)
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)
Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul purging truth coming on.--Betty White
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.--Pope Francis (Angelus on March 17, 2013)
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
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.--Erastus Wiman
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.--Mark Hopkins
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)
Take the gentle path.--George Herbert
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)
To enjoy a bright and hopeful view, dwell upon your mercies not upon your miseries.--Frank Crane
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)
Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.—-Thomas Chalmers