quotes about Mercy
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In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
-- Aberjhani -
We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
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Be grateful for small mercies.
-- Alexandra AdornettoSource : Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.48, Macmillan
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Marvellous mercies and infinite love.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!
-- Alice McDermottSource : "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". The Oprah Magazine Interview, www.oprah.com. April, 2014.
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The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.
-- Alistair Begg -
Human mercy is proof of having received divine mercy.
-- Alistair Begg -
Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
-- Anais Nin -
O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.
-- Anne BoleynSource : Anne Boleyn's speech at her execution, tudorhistory.org. May 19, 1536.
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Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
-- Anselm of Canterbury -
If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.
-- Avi -
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
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The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.
-- Bill Vaughan -
If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.
-- Billy Graham -
His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.
-- Boyd K. Packer -
Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.
-- Catherine McAuley -
mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?
-- Charles Bukowski -
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
-- Charles ChurchillSource : Charles Churchill (1779). “The Poetical Works of Cha. Churchill in Three Volumes: With the Life of the Author”, p.105
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Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?
-- Charles Kingsley -
Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Peace on earth, and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled.
-- Charles WesleySource : Hymns and Sacred Poems "Hymn for Christmas-Day" (1739). GeorgeWhitefield, in A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship (1753), altered Wesley's first two lines to "Hark! The Herald Angels sing / Glory to the new-born King!"
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Jesus weeps and loves me still.
-- Charles WesleySource : Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.190, Ravenio Books
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The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
-- Christian D. Larson -
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
-- Christopher Columbus -
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I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
-- Conrad Black -
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
-- Dallas Willard -
The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live.
-- David A. Bednar -
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I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
-- David Brainerd -
I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
-- David Brainerd -
May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
-- Dietrich BonhoefferSource : Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.137, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
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Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
-- Edmund Spenser -
My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.
-- Ellen Barkin -
I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.
-- Esi EdugyanSource : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.230, Macmillan
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Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.
-- Eugene Kennedy -
The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.
-- Francis BeaumontSource : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1812). “Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber”, p.479
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There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.
-- Franz WrightSource : Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.10, Knopf
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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
-- Frederick Buechner -
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.
-- Gerard Manley HopkinsSource : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.37, Delphi Classics
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Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?
-- Gertrude Atherton -
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
-- Graham Greene -
Peace on earth and mercy mild are still possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible.
-- Gregg Easterbrook -
It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
Let us be merciful as well as just.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
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Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.
-- Isidore of Seville -
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.
-- Israel ShenkerSource : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books
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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
-- J. C. Ryle -
We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.
-- J. C. Ryle -
In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing.
-- Jane Hirshfield -
If, as Niko asks, you show them mercy, then the gods will be well pleased.
-- Janet Morris -
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Your mercies are more than your afflictions.
-- Jeremiah Burroughs -
A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.
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Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.
-- Joanna Baillie -
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It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.
-- Joe Abercrombie -
Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.
-- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi -
The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly [with your God]. This is enough.
-- John Adams -
Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.
-- John Calvin -
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Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.
-- John Calvin -
The real meaning of mercy is that it can look on failure and still see a future.
-- John ClaypoolSource : John Claypool (1983). “The light within you”, W Publishing Group
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All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
-- John Donne -
Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.
-- John Dryden -
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What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!
-- John Flavel -
I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
-- John Fowles -
A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
-- John FoxeSource : John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (2004). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, p.79, Hendrickson Publishers
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He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier, he's gonna check us all on out of here. Up to that mansion on a hill, where you can get your prescription filled.
-- John HiattSource : Song: Riding with the King
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Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.
-- John of Kronstadt -
Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us
-- Joseph Caryl -
The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.
-- Joseph Pilates -
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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
-- Joseph Stalin -
I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.
-- Josh RitterSource : "The overlooked CDs from 2003", www.today.com. January 6, 2004.
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love. And this was shewed in such manner that I could not have perceived of the part of mercy but as it were alone in love; that is to say, as to my sight.
-- Julian of Norwich -
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The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.
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I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
-- Kate DiCamillo -
by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!
-- Katherine Cecil ThurstonSource : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.102, tredition
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While the Bibles account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.
-- Ken Ham -
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
-- Ken Kesey -
Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe.
-- Kevin Cook -
You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.
-- Laini Taylor -
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What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?
-- Laini Taylor -
Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
-- Lloyd Alexander -
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
-- Lord Acton -
Cor, love a duck. And also Lawks-a-mercy. I said that inwardly, but outwardly I said, "Blimey, and also, what larks.
-- Louise Rennison -