Mercy Quotes - Page 21

• Like mercy from heaven's gate, there's a freedom in your arms that carries me through. I need you.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Romantic, Heaven, Needs

  Song: I Need You

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• Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

  Gary Bauer

  Interrogation Techniques, Justice, People

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• To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood.

  Christian McEwen

  Grief, Childhood, Feelings

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• God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Justice, Quarrels

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• My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Past, Forgiving, Life Is

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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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

  Jesus, Eternity, Default

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• There is only one line of sight that will bring order to all our life and work: a vision of Christ seated at the right hand of God the Father, ruling with all justice and mercy.  Our influence only means something if it is plotted along that trajectory, and our work ultimately leads people to that same goal.

  Mel Lawrenz

  Father, Mean, Sight

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• Getting dragged, kicking and screaming out of the ring, begging for mercy from whomever it is that fires me, and never be seen again. That's how I wanna go out. Haha, yeah, I don't want any.. hero's goodbye, or a big send off. I don't want a retirement ceremony. That's not how I'm built, I just wanna disappear into the sunset and have people, 'Man, that guy was a jerk. Wow, I'm glad he's gone.'

  Chris Jericho

  Goodbye, Retirement, Hero

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• ....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mean, Citizens, Politics

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• A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.

  Henri Nouwen

  Ocean, Struggle, Self

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.42, Image

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• The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of mercy and compassion. He is not a neutral God inhabiting some inaccessible Mount Olympus. He is a God who cares about His children and cares enormously for the weak, the poor, the naked, the downtrodden, the despised. He takes their side not because they are good, since many of them are demonstrably not so. He takes their side because He is that kind of God, and they have no one else to champion them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Powerful, Children

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• The most important element in human life is faith; if God were to take away all his blessings-health, physical fitness, wealth, intelligence-and leave me with but one gift I would ask him for faith. For with faith in him and his goodness, mercy and love for me, and belief in everlasting life, I believe I could suffer the loss of all my other gifts and still be happy.

  Rose Kennedy

  Faith, Believe, Loss

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• At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Loyalty, Pride, Men

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.179, Island Press

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• No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.

  Cyprian

  Strong, Mercy Of God, Grace And Mercy

  Cyprian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Cyprian (Annotated Edition)”, p.403, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Baby, Father

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• Nothing stirs God’s heart more than a humble heart and a merciful spirit. God responds to mercy, because it is through compassion that we fully come to know Him. This is the defining quality of a true follower of Christ. We are never closer to the heart of God than when we are forgiving someone. And we are never farther from it than when we are holding a grudge.

  Nicky Cruz

  Heart, Humble, Compassion

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• Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.

  William Blake

  World, Pity, Release

  William Blake (1885). “The Poems: With Specimens of the Prose Writings, of William Blake”

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• You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, Men, House

  Lippmann, Walter

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• Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Children, Speed, Terrible

  Flannery O'Connor (1983). “Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge”, Signet Classics

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• Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all.

  Henry Twells

  Fall, Health, Evening

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• Forgiveness is not a result of our efforts, but is a gift. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit who showers us with mercy and grace that pours forth unceasingly from the open heart of Christ crucified and risen.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Effort, Grace

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• Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.

  Matthew Parris

  Christian, Nike, Doctors

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• When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

  Gennaro Angiulo

  Men, Assuming, Forfeit

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• As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.

  Anthony Burgess

  God, Glasses, World

  Anthony Burgess (1656). “CXLV Espository Sermons Upon the Whole 17th Chapter of the Gospel According to St. John: Or, Christ's Prayer Before His Passion Explicated and Both Practically and Polemically Improved”, p.159

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• A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been living upon the mercies shown by others, and by the chances obtainable, and have suffered there from, so we will in the future suffer if an effort is not made now to adjust our own affairs.

  Marcus Garvey

  Past, Race, Effort

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.48, The Majority Press

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