“Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love”
John Bunyan
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope”
Winston Churchill
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits that strict justice.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
“Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.”
G. K. Chesterton
“I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.”
Thomas Paine
“God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation”
John Calvin