Mercy Quotes

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.

No mercy goes unpunished by the angry gods.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

There is no greater mercy than to remind and inspire people to study the fear of God.

The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.

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

Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.

It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Amid so many problems, even grave, may we not lose our hope in the infinite mercy of God.

We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy.

In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

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.

He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?

Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.

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

If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.

A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

Remember: in the end, it is the merciful who obtain mercy.

When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer.

I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.