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<a href="/wiki/Deeds" title="Deeds">deeds</a> of mercy. ~ <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> </figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy" class="extiw" title="w:Mercy">Mercy</a></b> is a <a href="/wiki/Quality" title="Quality">quality</a> involved in <a href="/wiki/Acts" class="mw-disambig" title="Acts">acts</a> of alleviating <a href="/wiki/Suffering" title="Suffering">suffering</a> or distress, or in showing restraint towards those whom one has the <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> to <a href="/wiki/Punish" class="mw-redirect" title="Punish">punish</a> or harm, whether <a href="/wiki/Justly" class="mw-redirect" title="Justly">justly</a> or unjustly, often motivated by the <a href="/wiki/Emotion" class="mw-redirect" title="Emotion">emotion</a> of <a href="/wiki/Pity" title="Pity">pity</a>. </p> <dl><dd>See also: <i><b><a href="/wiki/Mercy_(Vertigo)" title="Mercy (Vertigo)">Mercy</a></b></i> (1993) by <a href="/wiki/J._M._DeMatteis" title="J. M. DeMatteis">J. M. DeMatteis</a></dd></dl> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mercy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jiuhuashan_bodhisattva_image.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Jiuhuashan_bodhisattva_image.jpg/220px-Jiuhuashan_bodhisattva_image.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="335" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Jiuhuashan_bodhisattva_image.jpg/330px-Jiuhuashan_bodhisattva_image.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Jiuhuashan_bodhisattva_image.jpg/440px-Jiuhuashan_bodhisattva_image.jpg 2x" data-file-width="872" data-file-height="1328" /></a><figcaption>Who <a href="/wiki/Liveth" class="mw-redirect" title="Liveth">liveth</a> <a href="/wiki/Alone" class="mw-redirect" title="Alone">alone</a> longeth for mercy,<br /><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">Maker</a>'s mercy. ~ <a href="/wiki/The_Wanderer_(poem)" title="The Wanderer (poem)">The Wanderer</a><i></i></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Estatua_de_Guan_Yin,_Macao,_2013-08-08,_DD_08.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Estatua_de_Guan_Yin%2C_Macao%2C_2013-08-08%2C_DD_08.jpg/220px-Estatua_de_Guan_Yin%2C_Macao%2C_2013-08-08%2C_DD_08.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Estatua_de_Guan_Yin%2C_Macao%2C_2013-08-08%2C_DD_08.jpg/330px-Estatua_de_Guan_Yin%2C_Macao%2C_2013-08-08%2C_DD_08.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Estatua_de_Guan_Yin%2C_Macao%2C_2013-08-08%2C_DD_08.jpg/440px-Estatua_de_Guan_Yin%2C_Macao%2C_2013-08-08%2C_DD_08.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4383" data-file-height="2872" /></a><figcaption>Oh the <a href="/wiki/Sisters" class="mw-redirect" title="Sisters">sisters</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mercy_(Vertigo)" title="Mercy (Vertigo)">mercy</a>, they are not departed or gone. ~ <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Cohen" title="Leonard Cohen">Leonard Cohen</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_083.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_083.jpg/220px-Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_083.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_083.jpg/330px-Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_083.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_083.jpg/440px-Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_083.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2024" data-file-height="2537" /></a><figcaption>Any <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> any of us reaches out, any time we pour even a drop of <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>, <a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">compassion</a>, simple human decency (no matter how small; how seemingly insignificant) into the <a href="/wiki/Sea" title="Sea">sea</a> of earthly existence — we are, each and every one of us — the being called <a href="/wiki/Mercy_(Vertigo)" title="Mercy (Vertigo)">Mercy</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/J._M._DeMatteis" title="J. M. DeMatteis">J. M. DeMatteis</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gandolfi_-_Allegory_of_Justice.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Gandolfi_-_Allegory_of_Justice.jpg/220px-Gandolfi_-_Allegory_of_Justice.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Gandolfi_-_Allegory_of_Justice.jpg/330px-Gandolfi_-_Allegory_of_Justice.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Gandolfi_-_Allegory_of_Justice.jpg/440px-Gandolfi_-_Allegory_of_Justice.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">Reason</a> to <a href="/wiki/Rule" class="mw-disambig" title="Rule">rule</a>, mercy to <a href="/wiki/Forgive" class="mw-redirect" title="Forgive">forgive</a>:<br />The first is <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a>, the last prerogative. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1896_Alfred-Pierre_Agache_-_The_Sword.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/1896_Alfred-Pierre_Agache_-_The_Sword.jpg/220px-1896_Alfred-Pierre_Agache_-_The_Sword.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="361" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/1896_Alfred-Pierre_Agache_-_The_Sword.jpg/330px-1896_Alfred-Pierre_Agache_-_The_Sword.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/1896_Alfred-Pierre_Agache_-_The_Sword.jpg/440px-1896_Alfred-Pierre_Agache_-_The_Sword.jpg 2x" data-file-width="609" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>I shall temper so<br /><a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">Justice</a> with mercy. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kazimirowski_Eugeniusz,_Divine_Mercy,_1934.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Kazimirowski_Eugeniusz%2C_Divine_Mercy%2C_1934.jpg/220px-Kazimirowski_Eugeniusz%2C_Divine_Mercy%2C_1934.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="469" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Kazimirowski_Eugeniusz%2C_Divine_Mercy%2C_1934.jpg/330px-Kazimirowski_Eugeniusz%2C_Divine_Mercy%2C_1934.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Kazimirowski_Eugeniusz%2C_Divine_Mercy%2C_1934.jpg/440px-Kazimirowski_Eugeniusz%2C_Divine_Mercy%2C_1934.jpg 2x" data-file-width="736" data-file-height="1570" /></a><figcaption>All our life is in <i>three</i>: in the first we have our Being, in the second we have our Increasing, and in the third we have our Fulfilling: the first is Nature, the second is Mercy, and the third is <a href="/wiki/Grace" title="Grace">Grace</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich" title="Julian of Norwich">Julian of Norwich</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Portia_and_Shylock_(Sully,_1835).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Portia_and_Shylock_%28Sully%2C_1835%29.jpg/220px-Portia_and_Shylock_%28Sully%2C_1835%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Portia_and_Shylock_%28Sully%2C_1835%29.jpg/330px-Portia_and_Shylock_%28Sully%2C_1835%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Portia_and_Shylock_%28Sully%2C_1835%29.jpg/440px-Portia_and_Shylock_%28Sully%2C_1835%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3346" data-file-height="4413" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Quality" title="Quality">quality</a> of mercy is not strain'd,<br />It droppeth as the gentle <a href="/wiki/Rain" title="Rain">rain</a> from <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a><br />Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd;<br />It <a href="/wiki/Blesseth" class="mw-redirect" title="Blesseth">blesseth</a> him that gives and him that takes.~ <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:US_Navy_060608-N-6501M-005_The_U.S._Military_Sealift_Command_(MSC)_Hospital_ship_USNS_Mercy_(T-AH_19),_anchored_off_of_the_coast_of_Jolo_City.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/US_Navy_060608-N-6501M-005_The_U.S._Military_Sealift_Command_%28MSC%29_Hospital_ship_USNS_Mercy_%28T-AH_19%29%2C_anchored_off_of_the_coast_of_Jolo_City.jpg/220px-US_Navy_060608-N-6501M-005_The_U.S._Military_Sealift_Command_%28MSC%29_Hospital_ship_USNS_Mercy_%28T-AH_19%29%2C_anchored_off_of_the_coast_of_Jolo_City.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/US_Navy_060608-N-6501M-005_The_U.S._Military_Sealift_Command_%28MSC%29_Hospital_ship_USNS_Mercy_%28T-AH_19%29%2C_anchored_off_of_the_coast_of_Jolo_City.jpg/330px-US_Navy_060608-N-6501M-005_The_U.S._Military_Sealift_Command_%28MSC%29_Hospital_ship_USNS_Mercy_%28T-AH_19%29%2C_anchored_off_of_the_coast_of_Jolo_City.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/US_Navy_060608-N-6501M-005_The_U.S._Military_Sealift_Command_%28MSC%29_Hospital_ship_USNS_Mercy_%28T-AH_19%29%2C_anchored_off_of_the_coast_of_Jolo_City.jpg/440px-US_Navy_060608-N-6501M-005_The_U.S._Military_Sealift_Command_%28MSC%29_Hospital_ship_USNS_Mercy_%28T-AH_19%29%2C_anchored_off_of_the_coast_of_Jolo_City.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2100" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption>Let despair be known <br /> as my ebb-tide; but let prayer <br /> have its springs, too, brimming, <br /> disarming him; discovering somewhere <br /> among his fissures deposits of mercy <br /> where trust may take <a href="/wiki/Root" title="Root">root</a> and grow. ~ <a href="/wiki/R._S._Thomas" title="R. S. Thomas">R. S. Thomas</a> </figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><small>Alphabetized by author </small></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an <a href="/wiki/Holy" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy">holy</a> <a href="/wiki/Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Nation">nation</a>, a peculiar <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a>; that ye should shew forth the <a href="/wiki/Praises" class="mw-redirect" title="Praises">praises</a> of him who hath called you out of <a href="/wiki/Darkness" title="Darkness">darkness</a> into his marvellous <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a>; which in <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> past were not a people, but are <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> the people of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous" title="Anonymous">Anonymous</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_of_Peter" class="extiw" title="w:First Epistle of Peter">First Epistle of Peter</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Peter%202&version=KJV;SBLGNT">2:9 - 10</a> (traditionally attributed to <a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Saint Peter</a>); this is one of the passages through which <b><a href="/wiki/Quakers" title="Quakers">Quakers</a></b> indicate divine sanction of the universal priesthood of <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> <a href="/wiki/Believers" class="mw-redirect" title="Believers">believers</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Who liveth alone longeth for mercy,<br /><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">Maker</a>'s mercy.</b> Though he must traverse<br />Tracts of <a href="/wiki/Sea" title="Sea">sea</a>, sick at <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>,<br />– Trouble with oars ice-cold waters,<br /><b>The ways of <a href="/wiki/Exile" title="Exile">exile</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd" class="extiw" title="w:Wyrd">Wierd</a> is set fast.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous" title="Anonymous">Anonymous</a> author of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wanderer_(poem)" title="The Wanderer (poem)">The Wanderer</a></i> preserved in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter_Book" class="extiw" title="w:Exeter Book">Exeter Book</a> (<i>c</i>. 960 to 990).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Special mercy arouses more <a href="/wiki/Gratitude" title="Gratitude">gratitude</a> than universal mercy.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Baxter" title="Richard Baxter">Richard Baxter</a>, <i>The Saints' Everlasting Rest</i> (1650), "The Splendor of the Saints' Rest"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a>, <i>The Devil's Dictionary</i> (1911)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._P._Blavatsky" class="mw-redirect" title="H. P. Blavatsky">H.P. Blavatsky</a>, The Voice of the Silence: Being Extracts from The Book of the Golden Precepts</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.</b> <br /> They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on. <br /> And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song. <br /> Oh I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Cohen" title="Leonard Cohen">Leonard Cohen</a>, "Sisters of Mercy" on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_Leonard_Cohen" class="extiw" title="w:Songs of Leonard Cohen">Songs of Leonard Cohen</a></i> (1967)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is mercy in every place, <br /> And mercy, encouraging thought! <br /> Gives even affliction a grace <br /> And reconciles man to his lot. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Cowper" title="William Cowper">William Cowper</a>, "Verses supposed to be written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Selkirk" class="extiw" title="w:Alexander Selkirk">Alexander Selkirk</a>" (1782), line 53</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Our rule is the works of mercy… It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Day" title="Dorothy Day">Dorothy Day</a>, as quoted in <i>The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History</i> (1997)</li> <li>Variant: [Practicing] the works of mercy ... is our program, our rule of life. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>The Catholic Worker after Dorothy : Practicing the Works of Mercy in a New Generation</i> (2008) by Dan McKanan</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Mercy listens — really listens, with interest and concern — then smiles, and reaches out her hand. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._M._DeMatteis" title="J. M. DeMatteis">J. M. DeMatteis</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Mercy_(Vertigo)" title="Mercy (Vertigo)">Mercy</a></i> (1993)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Mercy gestures — and the gesture speaks: Help yourself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._M._DeMatteis" title="J. M. DeMatteis">J. M. DeMatteis</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Mercy_(Vertigo)" title="Mercy (Vertigo)">Mercy</a></i> (1993)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Oh, Mercy — <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a> I understand: The <a href="/wiki/Secret" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret">secret</a> behind your <a href="/wiki/Actions" class="mw-redirect" title="Actions">actions</a>, the thread that binds all these seemingly random events. … There's no great or small! No question of size or importance! Each act of <a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">compassion</a> — however minor it may appear to our blind eyes — affects <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> Creation; shakes it to its <a href="/wiki/Roots" class="mw-redirect" title="Roots">roots</a>! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._M._DeMatteis" title="J. M. DeMatteis">J. M. DeMatteis</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Mercy_(Vertigo)" title="Mercy (Vertigo)">Mercy</a></i> (1993)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: <b>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.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._M._DeMatteis" title="J. M. DeMatteis">J. M. DeMatteis</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Mercy_(Vertigo)" title="Mercy (Vertigo)">Mercy</a></i> (1993)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Reason to rule, mercy to forgive:<br />The first is law, the last prerogative. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dryden" title="John Dryden">John Dryden</a>, <i>The Hind and the Panther</i> (1687), Part I, l. 261-262</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>God expects Us to have Mercy. God demands it. And yet how much Mercy does He show Us? <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Hill" class="extiw" title="w:Augustus Hill">Augustus Hill</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Oz" class="mw-redirect" title="Oz">Oz</a></i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>"We cannot hide behind the <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a> and not have mercy"</b> Mr. Jackson said, calling the withholding of food and water <a href="/wiki/Inhumanity" title="Inhumanity">inhumane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Immoral" class="mw-redirect" title="Immoral">immoral</a> and unnecessary. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_Jackson" title="Jesse Jackson">Jesse Jackson</a>, quoted in, <i>Jesse Jackson Takes Up Cause of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case" class="extiw" title="w:Terri Schiavo case">Schiavo's</a> Parents</i>, Abby Goonough, New York Times, March 30, 2005. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/30/us/jesse-jackson-takes-up-cause-of-schiavos-parents.html">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I will show mercy to whomever I will show mercy, and I will show compassion to whomever I will show compassion. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jehovah" title="Jehovah">Jehovah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romans" class="mw-redirect" title="Romans">Romans</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/romans/9/">9:15</a>, <a href="/wiki/NWT" class="mw-redirect" title="NWT">NWT</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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, <b>yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon</b>, 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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wallbuilders.com/proclamation-fasting-humiliation-prayer-1863/#">Proclamation for a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer</a> (30 March 1863)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b> <i>Mercy</i> is a working that cometh of the goodness of God</b>, and it shall last in working all along, as sin is suffered to pursue rightful souls. And when sin hath no longer leave to pursue, then shall the working of mercy cease, and then shall all be brought to rightfulness and therein stand without end. <br /> And by His sufferance we fall; and in His blissful Love with His Might and His Wisdom we are kept; and <b>by mercy and grace we are raised to manifold more joys.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich" title="Julian of Norwich">Julian of Norwich</a>, <i>Revelations of Divine Love</i> (c. 1393), Ch. 35</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich" title="Julian of Norwich">Julian of Norwich</a>, <i>Revelations of Divine Love</i> (c. 1393), Ch. 40</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am sure that no man asketh mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace be first given to him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich" title="Julian of Norwich">Julian of Norwich</a>, <i>Revelations of Divine Love</i> (c. 1393), Ch. 42</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.</b> 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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich" title="Julian of Norwich">Julian of Norwich</a>, <i>Revelations of Divine Love</i> (c. 1393), Ch. 48</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Mercy is a sweet gracious working in love, mingled with plenteous pity: for mercy worketh in keeping us, and mercy worketh turning to us all things to good.</b> Mercy, by love, suffereth us to fail in measure and in as much as we fail, in so much we fall; and in as much as we fall, in so much we die: for it needs must be that we die in so much as we fail of the sight and feeling of God that is our life. Our failing is dreadful, our falling is shameful, and our dying is sorrowful: but in all this the sweet eye of pity and love is lifted never off us, nor the working of mercy ceaseth. <br /> <b>For I beheld the property of mercy, and I beheld the property of grace: which have two manners of working in one love.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich" title="Julian of Norwich">Julian of Norwich</a>, <i>Revelations of Divine Love</i> (c. 1393), Ch. 48</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich" title="Julian of Norwich">Julian of Norwich</a>, <i>Revelations of Divine Love</i> (c. 1393), Ch. 49</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>In this life mercy and forgiveness is our way and evermore leadeth us to grace.</b> 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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich" title="Julian of Norwich">Julian of Norwich</a>, <i>Revelations of Divine Love</i> (c. 1393), Ch. 50</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>All our life is in <i>three</i>: in the first we have our Being, in the second we have our Increasing, and in the third we have our Fulfilling: the first is Nature, the second is Mercy, and the third is <a href="/wiki/Grace" title="Grace">Grace</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich" title="Julian of Norwich">Julian of Norwich</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelations_of_Divine_Love" class="extiw" title="w:Revelations of Divine Love">Revelations of Divine Love</a></i> (c. 1393), Chapter 58</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Truly-if a person does not have money but knows how to encourage and inspire the poor, the miserable, by speaking about mercifulness-would he not do just as much as someone who throws some money to poverty or preaches charitable donations out of the rich man’s pocket! So <b>we shall now consider: mercifulness, a work of love even if it can give nothing and is able to do nothing. We shall endeavor according to the capacities granted to us to make as clear as possible, as inviting as possible, to bring as close as possible to the poor person what comfort he has in being able to be merciful.</b> If that man well known for eighteen hundred years, <b>the merciful Samaritan</b>, had not come riding but walking along the road from Jericho to Jerusalem, where he saw the unfortunate man lying, if he had been carrying with him nothing with which he could bind up his wounds, if he had then lifted up the unfortunate man on his shoulders, and carried him to the nearest inn, where the innkeeper refused to receive either him or the unfortunate one because the Samaritan did not have a penny, could only beg and beseech this hard-hearted man to be merciful since a man’s life was involved-would he not therefore. …. but, no the story is not yet finished-if now the Samaritan, far from losing patience over this, had gone away carrying the unfortunate man, had sought a softer resting place for the wounded one, had sat by his side, had done everything to stanch the flow of blood-but the unfortunate one died in his hands-would he not have been equally as merciful, just as merciful as that merciful Samaritan, or is there some objection to calling this the story about the merciful Samaritan? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soren_Kierkegaard" class="mw-redirect" title="Soren Kierkegaard">Soren Kierkegaard</a> <i>Works of Love</i>, 1847, Hong 1995 p. 316-317</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah" class="extiw" title="w:Micah">Micah</a></i> 6:8</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I shall temper so<br />Justice with mercy.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a> (1667), Book X, lines 77-78</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Teach me to feel another's woe, <br /> To right the fault I see; <br /> That mercy I to others show, <br /> That mercy show to me.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, in <i>The Universal Prayer</i> (1738), Stanza 10</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Surely <a href="/wiki/Goodness" title="Goodness">goodness</a> and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.</b> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Psalms" title="Psalms">Psalms</a></i> 23:6</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If truth and justice were the rule, there would be no need for mercy. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendele_Mocher_Sforim" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Mendele Mocher Sforim">Mendele Mocher Sforim</a>, <i>Di Kliatche</i> (1873), reported in Joseph T. McCann, <i>Terrorism on American Soil: A Concise History of Plots and Perpetrators from the Famous to the Forgotten</i> (2006), p. 51.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The quality of mercy is not strain'd<br />It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven<br />Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;<br />It blesseth him that gives and him that takes</b>;<br />'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes<br />The throned monarch better than his crown;<br />His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,<br />The attribute to awe and majesty,<br />Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;<br />But mercy is above this sceptred sway;<br />It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,<br />It is an attribute to God himself;<br />And earthly power doth then show likest God's<br />When mercy seasons justice. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice" title="The Merchant of Venice">The Merchant of Venice</a></i> (late 1590s), Act IV, scene 1, line 184</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Consider this,<br />That in the course of justice none of us<br />Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy</b>;<br />And that same prayer doth teach us all to render<br />The deeds of mercy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice" title="The Merchant of Venice">The Merchant of Venice</a></i>, Act IV, scene 1, line 196</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,<br />Not the king's crown nor the deputed sword,<br />The marshal's truncheon nor the judge's robe,<br />Become them with one half so good a grace<br />As mercy does. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Measure_for_Measure" title="Measure for Measure">Measure for Measure</a></i>, Act II, scene ii</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy?</b> 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 <a href="/wiki/Vegetarianism" title="Vegetarianism">vegetarianism</a>. 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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer" title="Isaac Bashevis Singer">Isaac Bashevis Singer</a>, as quoted in <i>Animal life in Jewish tradition: attitudes and relationships</i> (1984) by Elijah Judah Schochet, p. 297</li> <li>Variant :</li> <li>How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Judaism and Vegetarianism</i> (2001) by <a href="/wiki/Richard_H._Schwartz" title="Richard H. Schwartz">Richard H. Schwartz</a>, p. 178</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor<br />Will also cry himself and not be heard. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Proverbs" title="Book of Proverbs">Proverbs</a> 21:13 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_King_James_Version" class="extiw" title="w:New King James Version">NKJV</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help, and thus we are able to recapitulate in the <i>one</i> word <i>motherliness</i> 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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edith_Stein" title="Edith Stein">Edith Stein</a>, in <i>The Significance of Woman's Intrinsic Value in National Life</i> (1928)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper" title="Sheri S. Tepper">Sheri S. Tepper</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_(novel)" class="extiw" title="w:Grass (novel)">Grass</a></i> (1989), Chapter 16</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.</b> There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau" title="Henry David Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)" title="Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)">Civil Disobedience</a></i> (1849)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let despair be known <br /> as my ebb-tide; but let prayer <br /> have its springs, too, brimming, <br /> disarming him; discovering somewhere <br /> among his fissures <b>deposits of mercy <br /> where trust may take root and grow.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._S._Thomas" title="R. S. Thomas">R. S. Thomas</a>, "Tidal", <i>Mass for Hard Times</i> (1992), p. 43</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>A severe mercy — the phrase haunted him: a mercy that was as severe as death, a death that was as merciful as love. For it had been death in love, not death of love.</b> Love can die in many ways, most of them far more terrible than physical death; and if all natural love must die one way or another, Davy's death — he and she in love — was the death that hinted at springtime and rebirth. <b>Sitting there on the rough wood of the bridge, he remembered his absolute knowing — something beyond faith or belief — in the moments after her death, in that suddenly empty room, that she still was. She had not ceased with that last light breath. <br /> She and he would meet again.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Vanauken" class="extiw" title="w:Sheldon Vanauken">Sheldon Vanauken</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/A_Severe_Mercy" title="A Severe Mercy">A Severe Mercy</a></i> (1977)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"><span id="Hoyt.27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"></span><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mercy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hoyt%27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_(1922)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> (1922), p. 509-10.</small></dd></dl> <ul><li>When all thy mercies, O my God,<br /> My rising soul surveys,<br />Transported with the view I'm lost,<br /> In wonder, love and praise. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Addison" title="Joseph Addison">Joseph Addison</a>, <i>Hymn</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. <ul><li><i>Book of Common Prayer</i>, Litany</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Cowper" title="William Cowper">William Cowper</a>, <i>The Task</i> (1785), Book VI, line 595</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gray" title="Thomas Gray">Thomas Gray</a>, <i>Elegy in a Country Churchyard</i>, Stanza 17</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A sentinel angel sitting high in glory<br />Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:<br />"Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Hay" title="John Hay">John Hay</a>, <i>A Woman's Love</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Being all fashioned of the self-same dust,<br />Let us be merciful as well as just. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a>, <i>Tales of a Wayside Inn</i> (1863-1874), Part III, <i>The Student's Tale</i>, <i>Emma and Eginhard</i>, line 177</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The corn that makes the holy bread<br />By which the soul of man is fed,<br />The holy bread, the food unpriced,<br />Thy everlasting mercy, Christ. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Masefield" title="John Masefield">John Masefield</a>, <i>Everlasting Mercy</i>, Stanza 88</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept<br />Essential love. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Pollok" title="Robert Pollok">Robert Pollok</a>, <i>The Course of Time</i>, Book III, line 658</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To hide the fault I see:<br />That mercy I to others show,<br /> That mercy show to me. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pope" title="Alexander Pope">Alexander Pope</a>, <i>Universal Prayer</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>'Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show<br />Her better eye, the farther off we go,<br />The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Quarles" title="Francis Quarles">Francis Quarles</a>, <i>Emblems</i>, Book III. Emblem XVI</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Think not the good,<br />The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,<br />Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the prisoner,<br />The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow,<br />Who daily owe the bounty of thy hand,<br />Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Rowe" title="Nicholas Rowe">Nicholas Rowe</a>, <i>Jane Shore</i> (1714), Act I, scene 2, line 173</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Mortem misericors sæpe pro vita dabit.</i> <ul><li>Mercy often inflicts death.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a>, <i>Troades</i>, 329</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whereto serves mercy,<br />But to confront the visage of offence? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a></i> (1600-02), Act III, scene 3, line 46</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy;<br />For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,<br />As dogs upon their masters, worrying you. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_V_(play)" title="Henry V (play)">Henry V</a></i> (c. 1599), Act II, scene 2, line 81</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God!<br />My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_VI,_Part_3" title="Henry VI, Part 3"><i>Henry VI</i>, Part III</a> (c. 1591), Act I, scene 4, line 177</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so;<br />Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Measure_for_Measure" title="Measure for Measure">Measure for Measure</a></i> (1603), Act II, scene 1, line 297</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet" title="Romeo and Juliet">Romeo and Juliet</a></i> (1597), Act III, scene 1, line 202</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Who will not mercie unto others show,<br />How can he mercie ever hope to have? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser">Edmund Spenser</a>, <i>The Faerie Queene</i> (1589-96), Book VI, Canto I, Stanza 42</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.</i> <ul><li>It is noble to grant life to the vanquished.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statius" title="Statius">Statius</a>, <i>Thebais</i>, VI, 816</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven<br />This Minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;<br />The rueful conflict, the heart riven<br /> With vain endeavour,<br />And memory of earth's bitter leaven<br /> Effaced forever. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, <i>Thoughts Suggested on the Banks of the Nith</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_(1895)"><span id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_.281895.29"></span><i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mercy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895).</small></dd></dl> <ul><li>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. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Brooks" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Brooks">Thomas Brooks</a>, p. 409</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>God loves our mercy to one another; but not upon conditions at variance with sanctity to Him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Martineau" title="James Martineau">James Martineau</a>, p. 409</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Kind hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one<br />Have limits to its mercy; God has none. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adelaide_Anne_Procter" title="Adelaide Anne Procter">Adelaide Anne Procter</a>, p. 409</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Who will not mercy unto others show,<br />How can he mercy ever hope to have? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Spenser" title="Edmund Spenser">Edmund Spenser</a>, p. 409</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span 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