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Mercy Quotes

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It’s hard to market a movie when you’re at the mercy of critics and journalists.

– Harvey Weinstein

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people’s formulations of what’s important.

– June Jordan

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

– Joel Osteen

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

– Joseph Campbell

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy - Jesus Gospel of Matthew quote

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

– The Bible

Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:7.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one’s sympathy.

– Conrad Black

Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors’ mercy.

– John Cassavetes

Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.

– The Bible

Colossians 3:12-13

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

– Arthur C. Clarke

Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

– The Bible

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

– Abraham Lincoln

Too much mercy… often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

– Agatha Christie

Break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your prosperity.

– The Bible

So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

– The Bible

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

– Anselm of Canterbury

But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

– The Bible

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

– Billy Graham

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

– Bobby Jindal

This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.

– Catherine McAuley

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

– Mercedes McCambridge

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

– Dorothy Day

Whoever feels mercy for the cruel is bound to eventually be cruel to the merciful.

– Moshe Kahlon

Ultimately, the soul will receive either judgment or mercy through Christ.

– Monica Johnson

Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.

– Elijah Parish Lovejoy

For me, it is one of the ‘signs of the times’ that the idea of God’s mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.

– Pope Benedict XVI

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

– Michael Servetus

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

– George Eliot

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

– Pope Francis

The essence of justice is mercy.

– Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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