Mercy Quotes - Page 9

• I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

  Conrad Black

  Sympathy, Asks

  "Interview with Conrad Black, Former Federal Prisoner and Millionaire Media Magnate". Interview with Paul Wright, www.prisonlegalnews.org. September 15, 2012.

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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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• One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

  Linda Cardellini

  Writing, People, Giving

  "Linda Cardellini RETURN Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 8, 2012.

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• A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.

  Tom Paxton

  Eye, Reality, Tree

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• Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

  Joni Mitchell

  Passion, Reality, Thinking

  Joni Mitchell (2013). “Joni Mitchell Complete So Far: Guitar Sheet Music Songbook Collection”, p.410, Alfred Music

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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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• No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Ocean, Judging

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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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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• You know the Zen question, 'The Bodhisattva of Great Mercy' has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes; 'which is the true eye?' I could not understand this for a long time. But the other day, when I looked at the pine trees bending before the cold blasts from the mountain, I suddenly realized the meaning. You see, all the boughs, branches, twigs, and leaves simultaneously bend to the wind with tremendous vigor.

  Katsuki Sekida

  Eye, Hands, Wind

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Grace, Challenges, And Love

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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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• I will be merciful, and I will believe in people. If I am to err, I will err on the side of mercy. I will give people the benefit of the doubt. I will bend, but not break, in order to give people the opportunity to grow and develop.

  David K. Bernard

  Believe, Opportunity, Order

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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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• There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

  George Eliot

  Weakness, Common, Treason

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

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• If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy.

  Robert Fulghum

  Fun, Justice, Figures

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.88, Ivy Books

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• What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

  Martin Luther

  Heaven, Needs, Neighbor

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• The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

  Norman Mailer

  Wisdom, Forgotten, Politician

  Norman Mailer (1970). “Cannibals and Christians”

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• Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

  William E. Simon

  Writing, Important, Charity

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• A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would hear the one angel; even if 999 parts of that one angel's report were unfavorable, God would hearken to the favorable part.

  Israel Shenker

  Angel, Men, Century

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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