Mercy Quotes - Page 7

• We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy.

  Pope Francis

  Strength, Trust, Christian

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• Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Loss, Justice, Choices

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Power of Ideas”, p.27, Princeton University Press

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• A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Men, Wish

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

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• Mercy surpasses justice.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Justice

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Barry Windeatt (2008). “Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation”, p.193, Oxford University Press

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• Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Left

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.455, Yale University Press

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• It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Leadership, Motivation, Impossible

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• The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fall, Fate, Opportunity

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Time is the Mercy of Eternity

  William Blake

  Eternity

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.295, Penguin

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• Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Kindness, Together

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• The rest of Russia is watching the same television that Vladimir Putin is watching. As far as they're concerned, Pussy Riot was rightly convicted of blasphemy, and Putin has now finally showed some mercy and let them out early so they could spend New Year's with their kids. He was nice to them even though they are really nasty. That's the dominant view. This really is a war and the front line is really firm.

  Masha Gessen

  New Year, War, Nice

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• I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Believe, Second Chance, Needs

  "Michael Eric Dyson and 'Is Bill Cosby Right?'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. May 11, 2005.

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• I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

  Philip Yancey

  Compassion, And Love, Knows

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.80, Harper Collins

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• Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Thrones

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.385

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• I am where God wills me to be, and so I have found rest and security. His wisdom governs me, His power defends me, His grace sanctifies me, His mercy encompasses me, His joy sustains me and all will go well with me.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Joy, Grace, Found

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• We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Warrior, Blood, Oppression

  "Mixed reaction in Mid East". Interview with Anne Barker, www.abc.net.au. May 3, 2011.

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• At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.

  Thierry Henry

  Giving, The End Of The Day, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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

  Inspiration, World, Unhappiness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.126, Penguin

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• The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Sorrow, Comfort

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.381, Discovery House

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• I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there are no bad books, no plastic, no insurance premiums, and of cours eno illness. Contrition does not exist, nor gnashing of teeth. No one howls as the first clod of earth hits the casket. The poor we no longer have with us. Our calm hearts strike only the hour, and God, as promised, proves to be mercy clothed in light.

  Jane Kenyon

  Book, Heart, Eye

  Jane Kenyon, “Notes From The Other Side”

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• The scriptures speak of His arms being open, extended, stretched out, and encircling. They are described as mighty and holy, arms of mercy, arms of safety, arms of love, “lengthened out all the day long.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Long, Safety, Arms

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• We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.

  Robert Mugabe

  Land, White, People

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• I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

  Josh Ritter

  Men, Singing, He Man

  "The overlooked CDs from 2003", www.today.com. January 6, 2004.

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• It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy.

  Ed Buckner

  Christian, Sacrifice, Law

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