Quotes About Mercy

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.

I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace.

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

When your enemy falls to the ground, help him to get up! Never let a man in that condition stay on the ground! To help the weak, be it enemy, be it rival, is an honour for you!

Will not God, who has commanded men to act thus, do as much himself and even more? For God commanded Peter to forgive till seventy times seven.

Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.

The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

When there's only God to blame, we forgive him. When it's our fellow man, we destroy him.

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians.

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them.

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

Let not that man presumes to look for mercy from God who offends His Holy Mother!