Mercy Quotes - Page 32

• The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.

  Wendell Berry

  Rap, Tomorrow May Never Come, World

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, p.171, Counterpoint Press

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• If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Enemy, Ifs

  Karen Marie Moning (2015). “Burned: Fever Series”, p.10, Delacorte Press

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• She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.277, e-artnow

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• I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Children, Parent, Age

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• My friend, judge not me,
  Thou seest I judge not thee;
  Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,
  Mercy I askt, mercy I found.

  William Camden

  Judging, Judgment, Found

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• I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Believe, Heart, Humble

  Address to the Nation Pardoning Richard M. Nixon, delivered on September 8, 1974, Washington D.C.

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• Sin! Sin! Thou art a hateful and horrible thing, that abominable thing which God hates. And what wonder? Thou hast insulted His holy majesty; thou hast bereaved Him of beloved children; thou hast crucified the Son of His infinite love; thou hast vexed His gracious Spirit; thou hast defied His power; thou hast despised His grace; and in the body and blood of Jesus, as if that were a common thing, thou hast trodden under foot His matchless mercy. Surely, brethren, the wonder of wonders is, that sin is not that abominable thing which we also hate.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Jesus, Art, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 546, 1895.

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• In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Humility, Mercy Of God

  Saint Dorotheus (of Gaza) (1977). “Discourses and Sayings”

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• Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power, but of His mercy. They were throughout moral in their character, and spiritual in the ends contemplated by them. They were in fact embodiments of His whole character; exemplars of His whole teaching, emblems of His whole mission.

  James McCosh

  Spiritual, Teaching, Character

  James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics, Delivered in New York, Jan. 16 to March 20, 1871, on the "Ely Foundation" of the Union Theological Seminary”, p.290

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• This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the contrary, God's mercy is a great gift of grace precisely because sins are sins and they call for repentance and forgiveness.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Stress, Mean, Thinking

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• The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.

  Winifred Holtby

  Travel, Lying, Holiday

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.

  Nina Bawden

  Running, Children, Writing

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• society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Long, People, Suffering

  Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Leadership, Simple, Profound

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• God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.

  Edward Reynolds

  Sins Not, Sanctuary, Holy

  Edward Reynolds (1838). “Israel's prayer in time of trouble: with God's gracious answer; an explication of the fourteenth chapter of Hosea, in seven sermons, preached upon days of solemn humiliation”, p.15

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• Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Book, Wind, Tree

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• And now that Thou has restored to me the knowledge of Thyself, O Lord, let thy pardon fall on me, since Thy infinite mercy is not better known in anything than in pardoning a Dismas (the traditional name of the good thief) on the Cross and a Dominicus Corea on the gallows. If in Hell there is room for sinners, in Heaven also there is room for penitents.

  Dominicus Corea

  Fall, Names, Heaven

  The last address of King Dominicus Corea on the gallows in Colombo before he was executed by the Portugues; as quoted in "Great Sinhalese Men and Women of History - Edirille Bandara (Domingos Corea)" by John M. Senaveratna, 1937.

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• If you knew what a sensation of the nearness of a higher power one instinctively feels when one is permitted to contribute to the good of mankind, as I have done, and still do! Believe me, it is a great gift of God's mercy!

  Jenny Lind

  God, Believe, Done

  Ernest Albert Spongberg, Jenny Lind (1920). “The life of Jenny Lind, Oct. 6, 1820-Nov. 2, 1887: a compilation from various sources, in commemoration of the centenary of her birth”

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• The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction with the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed and the right vindicated. We injure the culprit who comes up to take his proper doom at the bar of justice, if we do not make him feel that he has done a wrong thing. We may deliver his body from the prison, but not at the expense of justice nor to his own injury.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Children, Essence, Justice

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• Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into a grim and joyless adjunct to the policing of bedrooms and marital intercourse - men and women can no longer see themselves as beloved of God, only as impure and reprehensible.

  Uta Ranke-Heinemann

  Men, Church, Connections

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• Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

  Joseph Caryl

  Needs, Sin, Confession

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• It is mercy that our lives are not left for us to plan, but that our Father chooses for us; else might we sometimes turn away from our best blessings, and put from us the choicest loveliest gifts of his providence.

  Susannah Spurgeon

  Father, Blessing, Might

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Susannah Spurgeon, Joseph Harrald “C.H. Spurgeon's Autobiography: 1854-1860”

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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

  Rich, Poor, Permit

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• by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Mercy Of God, Ideas, Youth

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.102, tredition

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• Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.

  Douglas Pagels

  Distance, Lying, Compassion

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