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Offenders never pardon.
-Proverb
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It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
-Lyman Abbott
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The merciful shall obtain mercy.
-Bible
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Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. Mathew
-Bible
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A merciful person is merciful to their animals.
-Bible
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
-Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940
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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
-B. R. Hayden
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In peace we can make many of them ignore good and evil entirely; in danger, the issue is forced upon them in a guise to which even we cannot blind them. There is here a cruel dilemma before us. If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them to the opposite behaviour, this sooner or later produces (for He permits it to produce) a war or a revolution, and the undisguisable issue of cowardice or courage awakes thousands of men from moral stupor.This, indeed, is probably one of the Enemy's motives for creating a dangerous world-a world in which moral issues really come to the point. He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yieldsto danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.
(the enemy referred to is God)
-C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
-Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865
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Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
-Alexander Pope
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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
-Frederick William Robertson
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Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty.
-W. Secker
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The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice...
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy...
-William Shakespeare
The Quality of Mercy is not Strain'd (edited)
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In case of doubt we should always lean on the side of mercy.
-Source Unknown
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Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
-George Washington
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Books about Mercy
