Affliction Quote by William Cowper

“Mercy means compassion, empathy, a heart for someone’s troubles. It’s not something you do – it is something in you, accessed, revealed, or cultivated…

— Anne Lamott

Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

— Edmund Spenser

Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy…

— Brent L. Top

“Mercy is radical kindness. Mercy means offering or being offered aid in desperate straits. Mercy is not deserved. It involves absolving the unabsolvable, forgiving…

— Anne Lamott

Mercy is like the rainbow, which God hath set in the clouds; it never shines after it is night. If we refuse mercy here,…

— Jeremy Taylor

We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We…

— Laurence Sterne

“The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Kindness is like mercy: it blesses him that gives and him that takes.

— Richard Layard, Baron Layard

Mercy is to care, and care very deeply about one another. It is to care to the point where we are prepared to be…

— W. Phillip Keller

Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!

— John Hagee

God's mercy to us is the motivation for showing mercy to others. Remember, you will never be asked to forgive someone else more than…

— Rick Warren

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer