Mercy Quotes
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We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.
Rich Mullins -
Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
William Gurnall
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'I’ve thrown myself on your mercy, told you that without your help I’m utterly lost.What else is there?' She suddenly moved close to him on the settee and cried angrily: 'Can I buy you with my body?'
Dashiell Hammett -
Riley : "Do you want to claw at me, kitty-cat? Come on." Mercy: "Sorry, I don't beat defenseless puppies.
Nalini Singh -
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
Michael Servetus -
Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.
Mose Allison -
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
Queen Victoria -
Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?
William Shakespeare -
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 -
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot -
The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
William Hazlitt -
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
Eugene Forsey -
Embrace more deeply His love, His mercy and grace, and the powerful gifts of His Atonement.
Neil L. Andersen
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Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty - these are Christian values.
Charles J. Chaput -
Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!
Katherine Cecil Thurston -
This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
Robin LaFevers -
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
Benedict Cumberbatch -
May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.
George Washington
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.
William Cowper -
Therefore, mercy is not opposed to justice. Mercy does not suspend justice; rather, mercy transcends it; mercy is the fulfillment of justice.
Walter Kasper -
Mercy is not giving someone what they deserve. Grace is giving someone what they don't deserve. Extend God's wisdom in your relationships.
Andrew Wommack -
That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence.
Mahatma Gandhi