Mercy Quotes
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I signed their paper. It was a contract obligating me to spend six weeks doing farmwork in the north of Germany. If I didn’t show up at the train station tomorrow, the paper said, I would be treated as a wanted criminal and hunted down without mercy.
Edith Hahn Beer
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Temper justice with mercy.
John Milton
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Behold Jesus Christ crucified, Who is the only foundation of our hope; He is our Mediator and Advocate; the victim and sacrifice for our sins. He is goodness and patience itself; His mercy is moved by the tears of sinners, and He never refuses pardon and grace to those who ask it with a truly contrite and humbled heart.
Carlo Borromeo
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Therefore, mercy is not opposed to justice. Mercy does not suspend justice; rather, mercy transcends it; mercy is the fulfillment of justice.
Walter Kasper
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Robert Frost
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The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.
Winifred Holtby
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If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.”
Abdelkader El Djezairi
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Those who seek to achieve things should show no mercy.
Dereck Chisora
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Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve and Mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve.
J. M. Roberts
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Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.
Eugene Kennedy
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
William Blake
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While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.
Ken Ham
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Photography is without mercy - though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.
Nick Harkaway
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Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.
Nikolai Berdyaev
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There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
George Eliot
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Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.
Neil L. Andersen
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Mercy, it's the revolution and I'm in my bathrobe!
Nicole Hollander
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His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.
Boyd K. Packer
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This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
Robin LaFevers
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Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
Diane Ackerman
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Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed and nothing whatever happens, after the first blow has fallen, after the first catch of the breath, the first gulp of misery, we turn our eyes with all their old eagerness to a point a little further along the road.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Again, mercy is literally love in action.
Nelson Searcy
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We will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.
William Pennington