Luke 6:36 (NIV) Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
Jude 1:21 (NIV) Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.
Matthew 5:7 (CEB) "Happy are people who show mercy, because they will receive mercy."
James 2:13 (CEB) There will be no mercy in judgment for anyone who hasn't shown mercy. Mercy overrules judgment.
Micah 6:8 (NLT) No, O people, the LORD has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
Mercy comes down from heaven to earth so that man by practicing it may resemble God. Giambattista Giraldi (1504-1573)
Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan. Saint John Chrysostom (c. 347-407)
The quality of mercy is not strain'd. / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the place beneath. / It is twice bless'd: / It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World.
