Quotes about Mercy
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
— Laurence Sterne
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
May we always say thank you to God, especially for his patience and mercy.
— Pope Francis
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
Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.
— Pope Francis
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