Quotes About Mercy

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

Qu'est-ce que cela fait? Tout est grâce.

If you want to know a king, see how he treats his defeated foes. All are gracious to their equals; one in a thousand is gracious to an enemy he has conquered.

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him.

Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.

Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress.

Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute.

You are coming to a King, Large petitions with you bring For his grace and power are such None can ever ask too much.

A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us, just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care.

My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too.

God will pardon me. It's his business.

In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior.

Revenge is an inhuman word.