Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Who liveth alone longeth for mercy,The ways of exile – Wierd is set fast.
Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.
MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone. Oh I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long.
There is mercy in every place, And reconciles man to his lot.
Our rule is the works of mercy… It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.
Mercy listens — really listens, with interest and concern — then smiles, and reaches out her hand.
Mercy gestures — and the gesture speaks: Help yourself.
Oh, Mercy — now I understand: The secret behind your actions, the thread that binds all these seemingly random events. … There's no great or small! No question of size or importance! Each act of compassion — however minor it may appear to our blind eyes — affects all Creation; shakes it to its roots!
I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even a drop of love, compassion, simple human decency (no matter how small; how seemingly insignificant) into the sea of earthly existence — we are, each and every one of us — the being called Mercy.
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive:The first is law, the last prerogative.
God expects Us to have Mercy. God demands it. And yet how much Mercy does He show Us?
I will show mercy to whomever I will show mercy, and I will show compassion to whomever I will show compassion.
It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truths announced in the Holy Scriptures, and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.
I am sure that no man asketh mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace be first given to him.
The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love. And this was shewed in such manner that I could not have perceived of the part of mercy but as it were alone in love; that is to say, as to my sight.
When we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild, we are fully safe; suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath.
In this life mercy and forgiveness is our way and evermore leadeth us to grace. And by the tempest and the sorrow that we fall into on our part, we be often dead as to man’s doom in earth; but in the sight of God the soul that shall be saved was never dead, nor ever shall be.
And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
I shall temper soJustice with mercy.
Teach me to feel another's woe, That mercy show to me.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Consider this,The deeds of mercy.
No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,As mercy does.
How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Every kind of killing seems to me savage and I find no justification for it. I believe that the religion of the future will be based on vegetarianism. As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help, and thus we are able to recapitulate in the one word motherliness that which we have developed as the characteristic value of woman. Only, the motherliness must be that which does not remain within the narrow circle of blood relations or of personal friends; but in accordance with the model of the Mother of Mercy, it must have its root in universal divine love for all who are there, belabored and burdened.
I’m trying to decide whether we can afford to be merciful. The Arbai were merciful, but when confronted with evil, mercy becomes an evil.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Let despair be known where trust may take root and grow.
When all thy mercies, O my God, In wonder, love and praise.
Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
A sentinel angel sitting high in glory"Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!"
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust,Let us be merciful as well as just.
The corn that makes the holy breadThy everlasting mercy, Christ.
Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that weptEssential love.
To hide the fault I see: That mercy show to me.
'Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy showThe swing of Justice deals the mightier blow.
Think not the good,Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee.
Whereto serves mercy,But to confront the visage of offence?
You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy;As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God!My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so;Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
Who will not mercie unto others show,How can he mercie ever hope to have?
Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven Effaced forever.
Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.
God loves our mercy to one another; but not upon conditions at variance with sanctity to Him.
Kind hearts are here; yet would the tenderest oneHave limits to its mercy; God has none.
Who will not mercy unto others show,How can he mercy ever hope to have?