God is merciful to those who are merciful to others.

One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.

... me He now delights to spare.

Jesus weeps and loves me still.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

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.

A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would hear the one angel; even if 999 parts of that one angel's report were unfavorable, God would hearken to the favorable part.