Matt 5:7

“So greatly is God pleased with our feelings of benevolence towards all men, that He will bestow His own mercy only on the merciful.”

“The reward here seems at first to be only an equal return; but indeed it is much more; for human mercy and divine mercy are not to be put on an equality.”

“Mercy here is not said only of alms, but is in every sin of a brother, if we bear one another’s burdens.”

“(ubi sup.) He pronounces those blessed who succour the wretched, because they are rewarded in being themselves delivered from all misery; as it follows, for they shall obtain mercy.”

“The merciful (misericors) is he who has a sad heart; he counts others’ misery his own, and is sad at their grief as at his own.”

“(ord.) Justice and mercy are so united, that the one ought to be mingled with the other; justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice, profusion—hence He goes on to the one from the other.”

“(ap. Anselm.) Justly is mercy dealt out to the merciful, that they should receive more than they had deserved; and as he who has more than enough receives more than he who has only enough, so the glory of mercy is greater than of the things hitherto mentioned.”