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Mercy Quotes - Page 8

Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jan 23, 2017

God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.

Edward Reynolds (1838). “Israel's prayer in time of trouble: with God's gracious answer; an explication of the fourteenth chapter of Hosea, in seven sermons, preached upon days of solemn humiliation”, p.15

... me He now delights to spare.

Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.190, Ravenio Books

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.728

Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.

Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.175, Discovery House

Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

Algernon Charles Swinburne (2015). “Selected Verse”, p.95, Carcanet

Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.

William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.406

Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.287

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.121, Univ of California Press

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.148, Sounds True

Mercy often inflicts death.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 509-10, Troades, 329, 1922.