Mercy

Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. Last week’s virtue was determination. This week’s virtue is mercy. Mercy is an act of kindheartedness, consideration, or goodwill.

10 Virtue Wednesday Quotes: Mercy

  1. “Nothing can make injustice just but mercy” —Robert Frost
  2. “Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, “here, my poor man”, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect” –Swami Vivekananda
  3. “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
  4. “Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy” –William Shakespeare
  5. “A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road” –Alexander Smith
  6. “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice” –Abraham Lincoln
  7. “The brave love mercy, and delight to save” –John Gay
  8. “Mercy often inflicts death” –Seneca
  9. “I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say that God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another” — Jean Cocteau
  10. “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
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