Merciful Quotes - Page 6

• [T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Adjustment

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.209, Hamilton Books

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• Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

  C. S. Lewis

  Screwtape Letters

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• To business."Tux Dude extended his hand. "I am Prometheus." I was too surprised to shake."The fire-stealer guy?The chained-to-the-rock-with-the-vultures guy?" Prometheus winced. He touched the scratches on his face."Please, don't mention the vultures. But yes, I stole fire from the gods and gave it to your ancestors. In return, the ever merciful Zeus had me chained to a rock and tortured for all eternity.

  Rick Riordan

  Fire, Rocks, Hands

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• I have always thought that Heaven is a place for people who had had a good life, but that is not true. God is merciful and way too good to make it so. The Heaven is just a place for people who could not be really happy while living on Earth. I was once told that people who commit suicide are taken back on Earth to repeat life from the very beginning because if they did not like it once, it did not mean they would not like it the next time. But those who did not fit in on Earth at all, ended up here. Everyone comes to Heaven in their own way.

  Etgar Keret

  Suicide, Good Life, Taken

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• I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice. But she is cruel because she doesn't care what she does, as long as it fascinates her. I may as well be a puzzle or a broken machine she wants to fix. She will break open my skull just to see the inner workings of my brain; I will die here, and that will be the merciful thing.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Skulls, Long

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• Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.

  Timothy Keller

  Moving, Commitment, Love Is

  Timothy Keller (2013). “The Obedient Master”, p.34, Penguin

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  One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  "Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.

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• In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Intensity, Should, Provision

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2007). “SAT Words from Literature - the Scarlet Letter”, p.75, Prestwick House Inc

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• He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Life, Rain, Passion

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• To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

  Ruskin Bond

  Men, Laughing, Able

  Ruskin Bond, Ruskin (2008). “Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature”, p.238, Penguin Books India

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• Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Distance, Grief, Feelings

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.444, St. Martin's Press

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• Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Memories, Way, Horror

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_”, p.274, e-artnow

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• We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

  Annie Dillard

  Men, Feet, Beetles

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.179, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

  Al Pacino

  Way, Heal, Edges

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• O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Powerful, Father

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1850). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin”, p.79

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• And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.

  Brom

  Men, May, Twisted

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• ["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Cutting, Weather

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• I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes; in hospitals and forests and abbatoirs. For some folks death is a release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jobs, Blessed, Talking

  "The Sandman: Dream Country". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1990.

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• I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Grief, Believe

  LORD BYRON. (1819). “CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE”, p.62

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• Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He'd broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished.

  Nora Roberts

  Eye, Beer, Broken

  Nora Roberts (2005). “Blue Smoke”, p.79, Penguin

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• A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Eye, Gentleman, Absent

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.15, Sophia Institute Press

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• People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Character, Intimate Relationships

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• While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

  Virginia Woolf

  Humility, Dark, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.447, Wordsworth Editions

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• The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

  Cat Stevens

  Facts, Prophet, Characteristics

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• The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Ignorance, Thinking, Islands

  The Call of Cthulhu ch. 1 (1928)

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