Quotes About Mercy

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

Cats know not how to pardon.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Know all and you will pardon all.

Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

The brave only know how to forgive.

We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.

We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

Forgive that you may be forgiven.

Forgiveness is its own reward.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.