Mercy Quotes:
It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.
Peter Kreeft
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
Jack London
Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful.
C.S. Lewis
The most merciful thing in the world, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft
The more merciful acts thou dost, the more mercy thou wilt receive.
William Penn
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
William Shakespeare
Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
William Shakespeare
Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people’s formulations of what’s important.
June Jordan
Sometimes due to God’s mercy, the time in God’s plan can be stretched or extended
Sunday Adelaja
I never ask for mercy and seek no one’s sympathy.
Conrad Black
Justice is for those who deserve it, mercy is for those who don’t.
Woodrow Kroll
I want to put myself absolutely at your mercy for good or evil without any condition, without any limit to your power.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
Who will not mercy unto others show. How can he mercy ever hope to have?
Edmund Spenser
Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
William Gurnall
Mercy, that is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.
E. H. Chapin
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Meir Kahan
Pity would be no more, if we did not make somebody poor. And Mercy no more could be. If all were as happy as we.
William Blake
Mercy allows you to continue on in sin, grace empowers you to overcome it.
Jacquelyn K. Heasley
Where mercy is shown, mercy is given.
Duane “Dog” Chapman
Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it’s all that makes us human.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Unless you learn to lead, you will always be at the mercy of someone else to guide you.
Jeffrey Fry
Whoever feels mercy for the cruel is bound to eventually be cruel to the merciful.
Moshe Kahlon
The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up, he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.
E. H. Chapin
Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don’t deserve it.
Joyce Meyer
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Winston Churchill
Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
Anselm of Canterbury
Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.
Pope Benedict XVI
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
Pope Francis
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
G. K. Chesterton
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
Suzanne Fields
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can’t compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
William E. Simon
Oh, mercy, I think we’re all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
Utah Phillips
I can’t afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I’ve learnt after all these years is that I don’t fit in. It’s very difficult to be at the mercy of other people’s whims and visions.
Paddy Considine
‘Rosemary’s Baby’ is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening. I’m actually going to work on a movie in February, called ‘Mercy,’ from Jason Blum, who produced the ‘Paranormal Activity’ movies, and there is a similar theme to ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ in the movie.
Dylan McDermott
I know what it’s like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.
Martti Ahtisaari
What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?
James Forman, Jr.
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