“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
“Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary”
Oscar Wilde
“The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.”
William Shakespeare
“O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.”
Bible
“We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them”
Blaise Pascal
“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
“But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, / Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) / And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: / That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.”
