Quotes about Mercy
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."
— Maya Angelou
Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
— Laurence Sterne
God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
The only way to peace is forgiveness.
— Pope John Paul II
Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.
— Marianne Williamson
The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
— Wendell Berry
There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.
— Pope John Paul II
The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.
— Pope John Paul II
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.
— St. John Chrysostom
The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.