Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old mercy quotes, mercy sayings, and mercy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful.C.S. Lewis
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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.Timothy Keller
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It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.Peter Kreeft
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.Jack London
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The most merciful thing in the world, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.H. P. Lovecraft
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The more merciful acts thou dost, the more mercy thou wilt receive.William Penn
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.Willliam Shakespeare
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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.William Shakespeare
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Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.June Jordan
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Sometimes due to God's mercy, the time in God's plan can be stretched or extendedSunday Adelaja
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I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.Conrad Black
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Justice is for those who deserve it, mercy is for those who don't.Woodrow Kroll
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I want to put myself absolutely at your mercy for good or evil without any condition, without any limit to your power.Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
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Who will not mercy unto others show. How can he mercy ever hope to have?Edmund Spenser
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Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.William Gurnall
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Mercy, that is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.E. H. Chapin
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.Meir Kahan
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Pity would be no more, if we did not make somebody poor. And Mercy no more could be. If all were as happy as we.William Blake
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Mercy allows you to continue on in sin, grace empowers you to overcome it.Jacquelyn K. Heasley
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Where mercy is shown, mercy is given.Duane "Dog" Chapman
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Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.Laurell K. Hamilton
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Unless you learn to lead, you will always be at the mercy of someone else to guide you.Jeffrey Fry
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Whoever feels mercy for the cruel is bound to eventually be cruel to the merciful.Moshe Kahlon
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The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up, he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.E. H. Chapin
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Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.Joyce Meyer
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.Winston Churchill
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Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.Anselm of Canterbury
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Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.Pope Benedict XVI
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A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.Pope Francis
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Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.G. K. Chesterton