A Quote by Spencer W. Kimball

If you are going to err, err on the side of mercy.

Spencer W. Kimball

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Err Going Mercy Side

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Spencer W. Kimball
March 28, 1895 - November 5, 1985

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

Kofi Annan

I will be merciful, and I will believe in people. If I am to err, I will err on the side of mercy. I will give people the benefit of the doubt. I will bend, but not break, in order to give people the opportunity to grow and develop.

David K. Bernard

Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.

Jim Harrison

My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy

Joan Bauer

I wish that we had much more of the Spirit of Christ and a great deal less self, and less of human opinions. If we err, let it be on the side of mercy rather than on the side of condemnation and harsh dealing.

Ellen G. White

I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't know their struggle or their pain. I choose to err on the side of grace because someday I'll stand before God, and I pray He'll err on the side of grace with me.

Jud Wilhite

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Leonardo da Vinci

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

Bill Vaughan

Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.

Rudolph Rummel

It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.

Galileo Galilei

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.