Mercy Quotes
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Mercy is compassion, kindness, empathy, forgiveness. While grace might be described as blessings and favor from God that we do not necessarily deserve, mercy represents not receiving what we do deserve because of the patience, love, and atonement of the Master.
Brent L. Top
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When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.
Tilman J. Fertitta
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Genuine passion knows no mercy.
Dereck Chisora
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Karma is a beneficent law wholly merciful, relentlessly just, for true mercy is not favor but impartial justice.
William Quan Judge
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The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.
Bill Vaughan
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
William Cowper
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Indeed, mercy is God’s very own justice.
Walter Kasper
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Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.
Mose Allison
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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
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We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.
J. C. Ryle
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Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.
Abraham Lincoln
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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot
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Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.
Francine Rivers
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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
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The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
William Hazlitt
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If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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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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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
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Predators did not need mercy.
Conn Iggulden
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
Michael Servetus
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The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence - here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for 'laws.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do you want to be super successful? Never appeal to people’s mercy or gratitude... Appeal only to their self-interest & see the results.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.
Jim Gaffigan
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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
Gerrit Smith