Mercy Quotes
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It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.
David Farr
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I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
David Brainerd
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Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
Ambrose Bierce
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Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.
John Cassavetes
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Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.
Charlie Hunnam
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As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Friedrich Schiller
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My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.
Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
William Shakespeare
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I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.
Hans Frank
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Redeemed how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed thru His infinite mercy His child and forever I am.
Fanny Crosby
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Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.
Orson Scott Card
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We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
Bobby Jindal
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Grace, like an angel of mercy, makes his voice heard sweet and clear, repeating the story of the cross, the matchless love of Jesus.
Ellen G. White
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Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
Jim Costa
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Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
Edmund Spenser
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Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
Orson Scott Card
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Victor Hugo
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I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.
Louise Rennison
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Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.
Valerie Solanas
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The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.
R. C. Sproul
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May Allah show mercy upon the man who shows me my faults.
Umar
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Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
Saint Augustine
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The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know, a crowning mercy.
Oliver Cromwell
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As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
P. J. O'Rourke