Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

So much of the civil strife and conflict in our society could be ameliorated by a small touch of mercy.

I feel no mercy for him. He obviously didn't show my daughter any mercy, and I don't know if I could ever forgive him for what he's done to myself, to Danielle ... and to our family.

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, In wonder, love and praise.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.