quotations about mercy
He is an image of God, who delights in mercy; and remembers it even in the midst of wrath. He is an image of Christ, whose whole life was one continued track of showing mercy. His Miracles were all of the merciful kind, but two. His death was a most eminent act of mercy. And still he is a merciful High Priest, who is touched with the feeling of our infirmities. Commonly the merciful man obtains mercy from man, when he stands in need of it; as they have a judgment without mercy, that showed no mercy.--But whatever treatment they should receive from their fellow creatures, they shall obtain mercy of the Lord in that day, which will come to all others cruel with wrath, and with fierce anger. Yet, after all, it is not according to his own mercy, which is but a work of righteousness that he has done; but according to the mercy of God, he shall be saved.--Having obtained mercy of the Lord, by which he was made merciful at the first; he shall obtain mercy more and more.
WILLIAM MCEWEN
"On the Merciful Man", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity
God expects Us to have Mercy. God demands it. And yet how much Mercy does He show Us?
AUGUSTUS HILL
Oz
The soul closes against hate when dove-eyed mercy pleads.
CHARLES SPRAGUE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy in misfortune.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon: Or, Many Things in a Few Words
In this life, mercy and forgiveness is our way and evermore leadeth us to grace.
JULIAN OF NORWICH
Revelations of Divine Love
Thus, by the unutterable mercy of God, even the very punishment of wickedness has become the armor of virtue, and the penalty of the sinner becomes the reward of the righteous.
ST. AUGUSTINE
The City of God
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
Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even a drop of love, compassion, simple human decency (no matter how small; how seemingly insignificant) into the sea of earthly existence -- we are, each and every one of us -- the being called Mercy.
J. M. DEMATTEIS
Mercy
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help, and thus we are able to recapitulate in the one word motherliness that which we have developed as the characteristic value of woman. Only, the motherliness must be that which does not remain within the narrow circle of blood relations or of personal friends; but in accordance with the model of the Mother of Mercy, it must have its root in universal divine love for all who are there, belabored and burdened.
EDITH STEIN
The Significance of Woman's Intrinsic Value in National Life
And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
BIBLE
Micah 6:8
God puts consolation only where He has first put pain, and causes His mercies to abound nowhere, save in the furrow traced by penitence and laborious effort.
MME. SWETCHINE
The Writings of Madame Swetchine
Mercy often inflicts death.
SENECA
Troades
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
JACK LONDON
The Call of the Wild
Were there but a single mercy apportioned to each moment of our lives, the sum would rise very high; but our arithmetic is confounded when every minute has more than we can distinctly number.
NICHOLAS ROWE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.
STEPHENIE MEYER
The Host
Mercy is a working that cometh of the goodness of God, and it shall last in working all along, as sin is suffered to pursue rightful souls. And when sin hath no longer leave to pursue, then shall the working of mercy cease, and then shall all be brought to rightfulness and therein stand without end.
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
It strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.
SEBASTIAN BARRY
The Secret Scripture
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