Quotes About Mercy

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover other's faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and danger. Be like the earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

Our sins are nothing but a grain of sand along the great mountain of the mercy of God.

Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.

There's no end to amazing grace.

It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

O Lord, correct me, but with judgment: not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this off with the head attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?

God be praised for His mercy! I have seen a little sunshine-- I have had a happy time.

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace the human dress. Songs of Innocence Cruelty has a human heart And jealousy a human face, Terror the human form divine, And secrecy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace seal'd, The human heart its hungry gorge. Songs of Experience - This poem was discovered posthumously.

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

And throughout all Eternity I forgive you, you forgive me. As our dear Redeemer said: "This the Wine, and this the Bread.

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell, There God is dwelling too.

And all must love the human form, In heathen, turk, or jew; Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.