Mercy Quotes
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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
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In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means.
Dylan Thomas
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I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout.
Jim Gaffigan
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I know what it's like when you are a refugee, living on the mercy of others and having to adjust.
Martti Ahtisaari
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A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Alexander Smith
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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May Allah have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.
Umar
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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
Saint Augustine
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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
William E. Gladstone
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...hacking at the dying and decapitating those who knelt for mercy.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cor, love a duck. And also Lawks-a-mercy. I said that inwardly, but outwardly I said, "Blimey, and also, what larks.
Louise Rennison
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There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.
William Shakespeare
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The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk when you're at the mercy of a few big spenders. When any one customer pays you significantly more than the others, your product inevitably ends up catering mostly to that customer's specific needs.
Jason Fried
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I have a hard time understanding how cutting the program in our country that provides healthcare to working families by $800 billion can be classified as mercy.
Joe Kennedy III
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Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas— he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.
Nalini Singh
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The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
Ken MacLeod
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We have made up a God in our image. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. But God remains who He is and always will be: He is the energy, the thought of unconditional love. He cannot think with anger or judgment. He is mercy and compassion and total acceptance.
Marianne Williamson
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If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
John Maynard Keynes
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Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.
Martin Luther
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The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.
Washington Allston
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I fell in love - that is the only expression I can think of - at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behavior very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy.
Dylan Thomas
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The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate the way God’s world WILL be.
N. T. Wright