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Quotes About Mercy

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.
~ Gautama Buddha
There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
~ Marianne Williamson
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.
~ Mother Teresa
The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.
~ Gautama Buddha
T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
~ Robert Browning
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
And Allah made the kindness to parents as a protectional shield to His wrath and displeasure.
~ Fatima bint Muhammad
Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
~ David Levithan
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
~ William Shakespeare
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.
~ Alan Cohen
It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.
~ L. Frank Baum
To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
~ John James Audubon
Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
~ Pierre Corneille
Kindness nobler ever than revenge.
~ William Shakespeare
Requite injury with kindness.
~ Laozi
Whoever said kindness should be earned is wrong. A kick in the shins is earned - kindness should be a given.
~ Jodi Ann Bickley
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
~ Catherine the Great
S'il fallait condamner Tous les ingrats qui sont au monde, A qui pourrait-on pardonner?
~ Jean de La Fontaine
je savais que je portais le pardon.
~ Jean Giono
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
~ Jean Paul
Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their victims out of faints that the pain might start again. (On being tortured/The Tower.)
~ Jean Plaidy