quotations about mercy
The soul closes against hate when dove-eyed mercy pleads.
CHARLES SPRAGUE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Mercy is a sweet gracious working in love, mingled with plenteous pity: for mercy worketh in keeping us, and mercy worketh turning to us all things to good.
JULIAN OF NORWICH
Revelations of Divine Love
Mercy is the apex of God's glory the way the overflow of a fountain is the apex of the fountain's fullness. God is free to be merciful because he is full and utterly self-sufficient in himself.
JOHN PIPER
Let the Nations Be Glad!
A little mercy cannot pardon the least sin.
GEORGE SEATON BOWES
Illustrative Gatherings for Preachers and Teachers
The depths of misery are never below the depths of mercy.
BISHOP VON KETTELER
Truth: Devoted to Giving True Explanations of the Catholic Church, Volume 16
How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy?
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
attributed, Animal life in Jewish tradition: attitudes and relationships
I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able t love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.
SUSAN MEISSNER
The Shape of Mercy
There is no better rule to try a doctrine by, than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.
HOSEA BALLOU
attributed, Day's Collacon
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
BIBLE
Psalms 23:6
I shall temper so
Justice with mercy.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
ABERJHANI
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
To discountenance mercy, which has struck off the chains of the slave, which has mitigated the horrors of war, which has raised women from servants and playthings into companions and friends, is to commit high treason against humanity and civilization.
T. B. MACAULAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.
JULIAN OF NORWICH
Revelations of Divine Love
Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy, on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year; you will never be forgotten. No! your name, your deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind you as the stars on the brow of evening.
T. CHALMERS
attributed, Day's Collacon
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Mary Stuart
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
ABERJHANI
The River of Winged Dreams
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Grace: God's Unmerited Favor
Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.
EDWARD REYNOLDS
Israel's Prayer in Time of Trouble: With God's Gracious Answer