Mercy Quotes

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. (Lin Yutang)
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. View quote
Alexander Pope
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. View quote
Joseph Campbell
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. View quote
Winston Churchill
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. View quote
George Eliot
A God all mercy is a God unjust. View quote
Edward Young
Mercy is of greater value than justice. (Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues)
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. View quote
Winston Churchill
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents. View quote
John Updike
INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. View quote
Edward Sapir
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. View quote
Og Mandino
Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven. View quote
Henry Fielding
We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa Baa Baa We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa Yah Bah. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
For mercy has a human heart, pity a human face, and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. (William Blake)
Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we. View quote
William Blake
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. View quote
Malcolm X
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. View quote
William Wordsworth
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. View quote
Herman Melville