Mercy Quotes

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  All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Hope, Freedom

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste--never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer--crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.

  Charles Kingsley

  Crush, Children, Selfish

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Past, Mercy Of God

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• Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

  Saint Augustine

  Two, Giving, Catholic

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• You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Leadership, Forgiveness

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• The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.

  Julian of Norwich

  Life, Love Life

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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  Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

  Alexander Pope

  Helping Others, Woe Is Me, Volunteer

  'The Universal Prayer' (1738)

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• Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

  Richard Baxter

  Gratitude, Special, Universal

  "The Saint's Everlasting Rest: Or a Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven". Book by Richard Baxter. Chapter: "The Splendor of the Saints' Rest", 1650.

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• Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mercy Of God, Source, Mankind

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• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

  William Shakespeare

  Forgiveness, Sweet, Kindness

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.193

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• Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sometimes, Humans

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.47, Penguin

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• God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our souls, but the manifest forgiveness by which we have mercy on one another and so give expression to the fact that He is living, by His mercy, in our own hearts.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Heart, Expression

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.220, Shambhala Publications

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• Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fashion, Self, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.807, Delphi Classics

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  Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Technology, Civilization

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Message of the Myth)". TV Mini-Series, June 22, 1988.

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• Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

  Mark Hopkins

  Prayer, Mercy Of God, Grace And Mercy

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• Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christianity, Virtue, Orthodox

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• Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

  Ellen G. White

  Justice, Heaven, Deeds

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• God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Father, Judging, Has Beens

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• Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

  John Gay

  Love, Bravery, Coward

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.20

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• Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Men, Credit

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• Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Justice, Grows, Detached

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.326, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.

  Pope John XXIII

  Jesus, Live By

  Pope John XXIII, (2000). “Journal of a Soul”, p.307, A&C Black

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• What a mistake those who do not hope make! Judas made a huge blunder the day in which he sold Christ for 30 denarii, but he made an even bigger one when he thought that his sin was too great to be forgiven. No sin is too big: any wretchedness, however great, can always be enclosed in infinite mercy.

  Pope John Paul I

  Mistake, Sin, Infinite

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• The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

  Francis Beaumont

  Heaven, Headstone, Attributes

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1812). “Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber”, p.479

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