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Mercy is about forgiveness and compassion 

• Mercy: Compassion or forgiveness shown towards someone whom it is within one’s power to punish or harm. Oxford Dictionary
• Mercy: Kind or forgiving treatment of someone who could be treated harshly. Merriam Webster Dictionary
• Forgiveness,  Compassion,  Justice,  Tolerance,  Empathy,  Revenge,  Grace

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Mercy is one of the great virtues 

• All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Winston Churchill
• Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together. William Blake
• Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. Theodore White
• Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. Wendell Berry
• Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge. William Shakespeare
• The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. William Shakespeare
• Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars–not so sparkling and vivid as many but dispensing a calm radiance that hallows the whole. It is the bow that rests upon the bosom of the cloud when the storm has passed. It is the light that hovers above the judgment-seat. H. Chapin
• The truth doesn’t have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. Ken Kesey
• Virtue,  Values to live by

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Showing mercy is good for both sides 

• A merciful person helps himself, but a cruel person hurts himself. Proverbs 11: 17 
• Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. Victor Hugo
• By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also. Sir Thomas Browne 
• [Mercy] blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. William Shakespeare 

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Show mercy to receive mercy 

• Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. Alexander Pope
• Who will not mercy unto others show, how can he mercy ever hope to have? Edmund Spenser
• The more merciful acts thou dost, the more mercy thou wilt receive. William Penn
• Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Jesus, Matthew 5:7
• Where mercy is shown, mercy is given. Duane Dog Chapman
• When a man has compassion for others, God has compassion for him. Talmud

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True mercy is unmerited and undeserved 

• Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. Timothy Keller
• Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don’t deserve it. Joyce Meyer

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Mercy is a healing power 

• If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. Stephen Levine
• Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope. Aberjhani
• Healing,  Power

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Mercy replaces fear with respect 

• When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors. Chilon
• Respect,  Fear

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God is merciful by nature … 

• Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. Cervantes
• The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And ’tis the crown of justice, and the glory. John Fletcher
• God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning. Joyce Meyer
• Grace is when God gives us what we don’t deserve and Mercy is when God doesn’t give us what we do deserve… Dan Roberts
• Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here, we shall have justice in eternity. Jeremy Taylor
• Our prayer and God’s mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. Mark Hopkins
• 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 (Psalms 23:6). Bible
• The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. Kahlil Gibran 
• Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. William Blake
• You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. Graham Greene
• If a person is convicted of a crime, there’s a slight chance he will face a kind of judge who will show him a little mercy. Maybe reduce his sentence by a few years. That’s not a lot of mercy. It’s a little mercy, and the truth is, when it comes to humans, mercy is hard to come by. Not so with God. His mercy is like a huge bucket of water filled to the rim so that if you bumped into it, it would spill all over you. His mercy is so great that he doesn’t just forgive us when we fail, but he erases any record of our failure. He doesn’t just reduce our sentence–eternal punishment–he eliminates it and sets us free. Craig Groeschel
• Mercy is the apex of God’s glory the way the overflow of a fountain is the apex of the fountain’s fullness. God is free to be merciful because he is full and utterly self-sufficient in himself. John Piper
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… but also just 

• A God all mercy is a God unjust. Edward Young
• It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice. B. R. Haydon
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As God is merciful, so we are required to be merciful 

• And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 
• As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe. Friedrich Schiller
• Do not let mercy and truth leave you. Fasten them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will find favor and much success in the sight of God and humanity. Proverbs 3: 3-4 
• Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven. Ellen G. White 
• I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. Vidal Sassoon 
• We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves. George Eliot
• That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word. E. H. Chapin

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Live and let live 

• Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. Carl Sagan
• Live and let live

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Give thanks for mercy 

• A sensible thanks giving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. John Bunyan
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Be merciful towards the absent 

• A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. Lawrence G. Lovasik

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Never be too eager to deal out death in judgement 

• Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. J. R. R. Tolkien
• Death,  Judgement

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Show mercy to animals 

• Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind. Henry Bergh
• Animals

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Justice and mercy should go hand in hand 

• He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? Byron
• Nothing can make injustice just but mercy. Robert Frost
• A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just. Pope Francis
• Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. Anselm of Canterbury
• Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy. Sebastian Barry
• Clemency is the support of justice. Russian Proverb
• Let us be merciful as well as just. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Mercy is the highest expression of justice 

• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. Abraham Lincoln
• The essence of justice is mercy. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy. Vera Nazarian
• Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer. Mason Cooley
• It strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy. Sebastian Barry

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We are at the mercy of many things … 

• A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. Alexander Smith
• I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. Oscar Wilde
• She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy. Margaret Atwood
• Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. George Bernard Shaw

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… especially the laws of nature 

• Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. Arthur C. Clarke
• 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
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Mercy is defined as much by the giver as the recipient 

• I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn’t deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us. Susan Meissner
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Not everything deserves mercy 

• There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Frederick William Robertson

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There are times when mercy can kill 

• Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. William Shakespeare
• Mercy often inflicts death. Seneca
• Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it’s all that makes us human. Laurell K. Hamilton
• Too much mercy often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. Agatha Christie 

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Sometimes the greatest mercy is firmness 

• The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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There can be mercy in adversity 

• Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. Horace Mann
• The Lord’s mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. Charles H. Spurgeon
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• Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell 
• When having my portrait painted I don’t want justice, I want mercy. Billy Hughes
• If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy then yes Mr. Brave man I guess I’m a coward. Jack Handey
• Mercy: An attribute beloved of detected offenders. Ambrose Bierce
• 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
• When having my portrait painted I don’t want justice I want mercy. Billy Hughes