Mercy Quotes - Page 35

• O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

  Anne Boleyn

  Soul, Lord, My Soul

  Anne Boleyn's speech at her execution, tudorhistory.org. May 19, 1536.

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• God involves us in his missions not because He needs us, but because He loves us. And in His mercy He has invited us to be involved in His sovereign design for the spread of the gospel to the ends of the earth.

  David Platt

  Design, Needs, Earth

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• Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Plato, Dust

  Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

  Anya Seton

  Men, Grace, Firsts

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• Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Dog, Accepting, Begging

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• This is our Lord’s will, that our prayer and our trust be both alike large. For if we trust not as much as we pray, we do not full worship to our Lord in our prayer, and also we tarry and pain our self. The cause is, as I believe, that we know not truly that our Lord is Ground on whom our prayer springeth; and also that we know not that it is given us by the grace of His love. For if we knew this, it would make us to trust to have, of our Lord’s gift, all that we desire. For I am sure that no man asketh mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace be first given to him.

  Julian of Norwich

  Prayer, Pain, Believe

  Julian of Norwich, Grace Warrack (2017). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.95, Lulu.com

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• The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I'm deserving of God's mercy, I'll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard.

  Matisyahu

  Ideas, Needs, Beard

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• Justice is getting what you deserve.
  Mercy is not getting what you deserve.
  And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve.
  ...... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift

  Cathleen Falsani

  Compassion, Justice, Grace

  Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Serve God, and God will take care of you. Submit to His will, trust in His grace, and resign yourself into His hands with the assurance that the Lord is well pleased with those that hope in His mercy.

  Gardiner Spring

  Hands, Grace, Care

  Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.222

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• We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

  Jonis Agee

  Running, Rivers, Water

  Jonis Agee (1991). “Sweet eyes”, Crown Pub

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• Mercy Corps' partnership with The Hunger Site translates into lifesaving assistance for people in tremendous need around the world. When you visit, click, and shop at this unique site, you're making the future a little brighter for families who need food in the world's poorest places.

  Dan O'Neill

  Unique, People, Needs

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• The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  Medicine, United States, Looks

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• Time is one of our most valuable possessions. Use it wisely. Remind yourselves often that things that matter most should not be left to the mercy of things that matter the least.

  O. Leslie Stone

  Matter, Use, Should

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• Khesed...mercy...love. It's God's nature, His essence. Don't forget that, through all this, don't forget that. Judgement is His necessity, but His nature and essence, His heart, is love. He's the one always calling out to the lost to be saved.

  Jonathan Cahn

  Heart, Essence, Judgement

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• Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.

  Leila Aboulela

  Light, Practice, Giving

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• Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Children, Heart, Joy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 50, 1895.

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• The Good News is that God's mercy and forgiveness extend to those who repent. Mercy does not mean approving of something that is sinful, but does absolve the wrongdoer after a change of heart takes place in the sinner through the gift of God's grace.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Heart, Mean, Grace

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• There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.

  Frederick William Faber

  Sea, Hymns, Oratory

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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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• The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

  John Updike

  Self, Creative, Use

  "Writers on Themselves: Magic, Working Secrets" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. August 17, 1986.

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• He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.

  William Cowper

  Men, Speech, Ambassadors

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.141

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• Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.

  Andre Malraux

  Reality, Criticism, Painting

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• Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.

  Leonard Cohen

  War, Israel, Land

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.27, McClelland & Stewart

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• You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Fashion, Sight, Knowing

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.218

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• Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

  Christopher Love

  Comfort, Degrees, Looks

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