Sometimes it was easier to swim with the current rather than fight against it. There was always a shallow pool somewhere ahead.… — Helen Hollick Copy Share Image
When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives,… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
O youth…be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand…Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
... there is clearly expressed for us? what it is we must attribute either to free will or to the decision and… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“The all of God, the totality of His immensity, is known in the human heart through encountering divine mercy. The search for… — Anthony Lilles Copy Share Image
Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Ramadan Mubarak, brothers and sisters of Islam! I hope you all take advantage of this sacred month. The month of Forgiveness and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's only fair to warn you that you sealed your fate tonight. When you knew you were in trouble, you came to… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
I have heard of a monk who in his cell had a glorious vision of Jesus revealed to him. Just then a… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being;… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous.… — Bhakti Tirtha Swami Copy Share Image
I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not." [...] "I am the strong arm… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Never miss a joy in this world of trouble-that's my theory!… Happiness, like mercy,is twice blest: it blesses those most intimately associated… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given.… — Haley Bennett Copy Share Image
While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Above all, you ask if the God of Christians forgives those who do not believe and who do not seek faith. Given… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people… — Laura Antoniou Copy Share Image
Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Yet each flower, each twig, each pebble, shines as though illuminated from within, as once before, on her first day in the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“SUDDEN RESURRECTION! Endless mercy! Blazing fire in the thickets of thought! Today you came laughing Unlocking dungeons Came to the meek Like… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
I can still see her face -- The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn't know it… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy;… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential… — John Galt Copy Share Image
The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As Gandhi wisely points out, even as we serve others we are working on ourselves; every act, every word, every gesture of… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image