Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

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.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Good people are always forgiving. They close an eye to one's failings.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

I don't wish ill will on anybody.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

A king who desires his own welfare must always forgive litigants, infants, aged and sick men, who inveigh against him.

So many of the high ranking about me have discarded mercy as a weakness.

If you think you're gonna have pity on me or take it easy on me, then I'm gonna have to help you off your back.

Regrettably, the media are seemingly incapable of mentioning the words 'compassion' and 'Trump' in the same sentence.

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked. One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more." There is no limit to the breadth and depth of ones heart. There is room enough for all. That we still worship the sages of the three ancient kingdoms is because their compassion reaches us yet today.