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Top 113 Mercy Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 20, 2020

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”

― Abraham Lincoln

“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

“When you’re tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.”

― Alan Dale

“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

“A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.”

― Alexander Smith

“My whole life, I’ve loved ’80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.”

― Andy Biersack

“Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.”

― Anselm of Canterbury

“We’re trying to evolve a lot away from YouTube because YouTube is awesome – they have a huge audience, and we started there – but then you’re at the mercy of their algorithms a lot, too. They can change anything, and it’s really up to them, and you can’t say anything about it.”

― Anthony Padilla

“One night I was driving and so infatuated with dipping French fries into my milk shake that I drove right through a stop sign. The cop who pulled me over had no mercy.”

― Arielle Kebbel

“Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.”

― Arthur C. Clarke

“I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We’re cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.”

― Barry McGuire

“Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.”

― Belinda Carlisle

“Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.”

― Benedict Cumberbatch

“The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.”

― Billy Graham

“When having my portrait painted I don’t want justice, I want mercy.”

― Billy Hughes

“Christ receives people; because of that mercy, conversion happens.”

― Blase J. Cupich

“We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.”

― Bobby Jindal

“This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.”

― Catherine McAuley

“There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.”

― Chanakya

“The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.”

― Charles Spurgeon

“Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one’s career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.”

― Charlie Hunnam

“I never ask for mercy and seek no one’s sympathy.”

― Conrad Black

“Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.”

― Conrad Hilton

“Actors are at the mercy of roles that are offered.”

― Daniel Dae Kim

“I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.”

― David Brainerd

“It’s a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. ‘Coriolanus’ shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.”

― David Farr

“Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.”

― Dorothy Day

“A God all mercy is a God unjust.”

― Edward Young

“The essence of justice is mercy.”

― Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.”

― Elijah Parish Lovejoy

“Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.”

― Ellen G. White

“By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the safeguards, institutions, and mindset needed to survive and prosper as a small open economy inside the euro area.”

― Enda Kenny

“Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.”

― Ferdinand Marcos

“There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.”

― Frederick William Robertson

“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

“Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one’s beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.”

― Gary Bauer

“People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.”

― Gary Oldman

“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

“We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.”

― George Eliot

“Truth and mercy require the exertion – never the suppression, of man’s noble rights and powers.”

― Gerrit Smith

“The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.”

― Havelock Ellis

“God the Father lives. He hears and answers our prayers in love. The Savior Jesus Christ, resurrected and glorious, lives and reaches out to us in mercy.”

― Henry B. Eyring

“The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.”

― Herman Melville

“The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians’ mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.”

― J. Anthony Lukas

“What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?”

― James Forman, Jr.

“The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk when you’re at the mercy of a few big spenders. When any one customer pays you significantly more than the others, your product inevitably ends up catering mostly to that customer’s specific needs.”

― Jason Fried

“Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”

― Jesus Christ

“Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.”

― Jim Costa

“Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.”

― Jo Stafford

“We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.”

― Joel Osteen

“We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.”

― Joel Osteen

“God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us – as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.”

― John Calvin

“Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors’ mercy.”

― John Cassavetes

“A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.”

― John Foxe

“Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.”

― John Gay

“The brave love mercy, and delight to save.”

― John Gay

“The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.”

― Jon Lee Anderson

“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.”

― Joseph Campbell

“When I first met my girlfriend, Mercy Malick, she asked me if there was anything I should tell her that could put her off me if she found out later. So I told her that I was a total ‘Star Wars’ geek and had boxes of ‘Star Wars’ toys in storage.”

― Joseph Gatt

“God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning.”

― Joyce Meyer

“Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people’s formulations of what’s important.”

― June Jordan

“I’m at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.”

― Kate DiCamillo

“If you’re an actor, you’re at the mercy of a script. You’ve got far more control if you’re the photographer.”

― Kathryn Prescott

“You’re at the mercy of the editors’ hands.”

― Kelly LeBrock

“While the Bible’s account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.”

― Ken Ham

“The truth doesn’t have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.”

― Ken Kesey

“There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.”

― Kiefer Sutherland

“Sadly, many people in our biggest cities are at the mercy of industrial food.”

― Kimbal Musk

“In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.”

― Leland Stanford

“At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.”

― Leon Bourgeois

“Embarking upon war is always dangerous for national leaders because it makes them more than ever at the mercy of events. When domestic opinion is acutely divided, however, war can be politically lethal for its makers.”

― Linda Colley

“I’m so grateful for just the inherent mercy of life.”

― Lizz Wright

“As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I hope in the mercy of God.”

― Louis XIV

“I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.”

― Malala Yousafzai

“Our prayer and God’s mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.”

― Mark Hopkins

“I know what it’s like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.”

― Martti Ahtisaari

“Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.”

― Mason Cooley

“Most people call me Mercy. I like it.”

― Mercedes McCambridge

“Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.”

― Michael Badnarik

“Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens.”

― Michael Portillo

“May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.”

― Michael Servetus

“Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.”

― Michael Servetus

“You either have commercial pressure or ideological pressure. I prefer commercial pressure; otherwise, you can be at the mercy of one or two idiots.”

― Milos Forman

“We will not allow our country ever to be at the mercy of commodity price volatility or external markets.”

― Mohammad bin Salman

“Ultimately, the soul will receive either judgment or mercy through Christ.”

― Monica Johnson

“It’s only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God’s mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus’ name.”

― Monica Johnson

“Whoever feels mercy for the cruel is bound to eventually be cruel to the merciful.”

― Moshe Kahlon

“Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.”

― Nancy Gibbs

“Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.”

― P. J. O’Rourke

“As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one’s friends’ and relatives’ children.”

― P. J. O’Rourke

“I can’t afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I’ve learnt after all these years is that I don’t fit in. It’s very difficult to be at the mercy of other people’s whims and visions.”

― Paddy Considine

“I’m afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.”

― Philip Levine

“Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.”

― Pope Benedict XVI

“For me, it is one of the ‘signs of the times’ that the idea of God’s mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.”

― Pope Benedict XVI

“The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.”

― Pope Francis

“A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.”

― Pope Francis

“When you collect photographs, you’re sort of at the mercy of the gods.”

― Ransom Riggs

“I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.”

― Richard Francis Burton

“Being ‘at the mercy of legislative majorities’ is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.”

― Robert Bork

“Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.”

― Robert Frost

“It is my conviction that becoming economically and socially vulnerable puts you at the mercy of people surrounding you. It is as if you no longer exist as a human being and are no longer worthy of respect.”

― Rula Ghani

“As a kid, you’re so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.”

― Susan Kelechi Watson

“Pictures are much harder to do than the theater… You’re at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.”

― Sydney Greenstreet

“When you’re public, you’re at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don’t get rewarded for it.”

― Tilman J. Fertitta

“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

“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”

― William Blake

“Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can’t compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.”

― William E. Simon

“Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.”

― William Gurnall

“Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.”

― William Penn

“Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.”

― William Shakespeare

“I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.”

― William Tecumseh Sherman

“We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.”

― Winston Churchill

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