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Quotes About Mercy

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.
~ Leviticus 19 18 NIV
Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.
~ Henry Bergh
"Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the one who loves.
~ Theophan the Recluse
We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.
~ Swami Vivekananda
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
~ Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
The best punishment for an enemy is forgiveness.
~ Debasish Mridha
The best revenge is true forgiveness.
~ Debasish Mridha
Forgiveness is the most compassionate way toward the peace.
~ Debasish Mridha
Be a vessel of forgiveness and kindness in order to be a fountain of peace.
~ Debasish Mridha
Be kind to him who does not deserve your kindness.
~ Debasish Mridha
Of course we're guilty!-That's what we've got pardons for!
~ Anthony T. Hincks
When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.
~ Debasish Mridha
He who possesses forgiveness is able to enjoy true happiness.
~ Debasish Mridha
Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity.
~ Debasish Mridha
Lack of courage leads to cruelty.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The best revenge is kind forgiveness.
~ Debasish Mridha
A person with a forgiving heart knows where happiness dwells.
~ Debasish Mridha
By forgiving we become free.
~ Debasish Mridha
May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
~ Frederick Buechner
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
~ Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness.
~ Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
~ Desmond Tutu
If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.
~ Gerald R. Ford