Wendell Berry Quotes About Mercy

Quotes about: Mercy

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

  Wendell Berry

  Law, Justice, Competition

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.212, Counterpoint

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

  Wendell Berry

  Christian, Justice, Calling

  Wendell Berry (2004). “Citizenship Papers: Essays”, p.25, Counterpoint Press

• The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.

  Wendell Berry

  Rap, Tomorrow May Never Come, World

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, p.171, Counterpoint Press

• The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

  Wendell Berry

  Grief, Doe, World

• The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be mitigated by mercy. And you don't get to mercy by a legal principle. You get to mercy by way of imagination, sympathy, tenderness of heart - which are not weaknesses.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Law, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

• You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.

  Wendell Berry

  Children, People, Analogies

  Source: www.neh.gov

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