<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Mercy - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kerry Ellison, your namesounds likeKyrie Eleison**Kyrie Eleison means God have mercy in Greek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kerry Ellison, your namesounds likeKyrie Eleison**Kyrie Eleison means God have mercy in Greek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shedits blood?How can we pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27370]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shedits blood?How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy?Nobel laureate in literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach me to feel another's woe,  To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach me to feel another's woe,  To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  That mercy show to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are immobile and voiceless,and cannot ask for the mercy of water,those trapped caged house plants.In the winter they feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27374]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are immobile and voiceless,and cannot ask for the mercy of water,those trapped caged house plants.In the winter they feel no breezenor are they touched by a hand which frees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27353]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;  The rueful conflict, the heart riven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;  The rueful conflict, the heart riven   With vain endeavour,    And memory of earth's bitter leaven     Effaced forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27356]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27363]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider the most despicable the one that cloaks himself in a garb of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render  The deeds of mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27351]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render  The deeds of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy;   For your own reasons turn into your bosoms    As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven  Upon the place beneath. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven  Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;   It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.    'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes     The throned monarch better than his crown.      His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,       The attribute to awe and majesty,        Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;         But mercy is above this scept'red sway;          It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;           It is an attribute to God himself,            And earthly power doth then show likest God's             When mercy seasons justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept Essential love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  That mercy show to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27342]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  That mercy show to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go,  The swing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27343]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go,  The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,  Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the prisoner,   The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow,    Who daily owe the bounty of thy hand,     Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy often inflicts death. [Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy often inflicts death. [Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys,  Transported with the view I'm lost,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27334]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys,  Transported with the view I'm lost,   In wonder, love and praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27337]]></link><description><![CDATA[And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:  "Have mercy, mighty angel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:  "Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the food unpriced,   Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would lose my way again, be led hopelessly astray again, just so I can pray again...For the mercy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would lose my way again, be led hopelessly astray again, just so I can pray again...For the mercy in you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27327]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, "here, my poor man", but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17496</guid></item></channel></rss>