Mercy Quotes
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Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Vidal Sassoon
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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 fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
David Brainerd
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I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.
Frank Knox
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The way is long and dreary,The path is bleak and bare;Our feet are worn and weary,But we will not despair;More weary was Thy burden,More desolate Thy ways,O Lamb of God, who takestThe sin of the world away,Have mercy upon us.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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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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Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?
William Shakespeare
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Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.
Chris Hedges
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What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?
James Forman, Jr.
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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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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
William Shakespeare
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Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy, which he will; but once he is gone from here, he may not do so. For whichever he first goes to, whether he like it well or ill, there he must dwell forevermore. He shall never after change his dwelling, though he hates it ever so badly.
John Wycliffe
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The overwhelming message of the Atonement is the perfect love the Savior has for each and all of us. It is a love which is full of mercy, patience, grace, equity, long-suffering, and, above all, forgiving.
James E. Faust
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Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.
Belinda Carlisle
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Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Jesus Christ
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Ruins-antique ruins at least-are what is left when history has moved on. They are no longer at the mercy of history, only of time. (p. 207).
Geoff Dyer
