22 Inspiring Quotes about
Mercy is the stuff you give to people who don’t deserve it.
(Joyce Meyer)
Leniency, compassion or forgiveness towards offenders, enemies, or persons under your authority
When we live at each other’s mercy, we had better learn to be merciful.
(William Coffin)
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
(William Shakespeare)
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
(Robert Frost)
Mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
(Abraham Lincoln)
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
(Adam Smith)
The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
(John Gay)
You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.
(Nelson Mandela)
Temper justice with mercy, but mercy with justice.
(Scott Anderson)
It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.
(Peter Kreeft)
Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
(William Shakespeare)
Who will not mercy unto others show, how can he mercy ever hope to have?
(Edmund Spenser)
Where mercy is shown, mercy is given.
(Duane “Dog” Chapman)
Justice is for those who deserve it, mercy is for those who don’t.
(Woodrow Kroll)
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
(Mason Cooley)
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
(Edward Young)
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
(William Cowper)
Mercy I asked, mercy I found.
(William Camden)
Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.
(Francis Quarles)
Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.
(C.S. Lewis)
Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.
(Richard Baxter)
