Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple.… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
If there is anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that… — Philip Gibbs Copy Share Image
Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
If you owe your banker a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe your banker a million pounds, he… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control. My heart aches for America and its deceived… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and… — Henry Knox Copy Share Image
Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
It is healthy to say, 'Yes, I am a sinner,' and to recognise that this should lead us to turn to God… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not… — William Laud Copy Share Image
Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill. — Cyril of Jerusalem Copy Share Image
Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence... To be… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God… — Maaza Mengiste Copy Share Image
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Damn it," I said. "I don't suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton." He smiled at me, his teeth… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when… — Ralph Venning Copy Share Image
Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are… — A.W. Streane Copy Share Image
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
GRACE is when you get the good things you don't deserve. MERCY is when you're spared from the bad things you do… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
There's the wind And the rain And the mercy of the fallen Who say, "Hey, it's not my place To know what's… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“The call to “take the land” ...is not a call to a new political, cultural or geographical dominance. It is Kingdom of… — Ken Baker Copy Share Image
“Let's not be afraid of stilling our mind and having mercy with ourselves, and allowing us patience to recover from our dazzling… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“You said I could pet you as long as I liked.” “Didn't say I wouldn't try to fuck you in the middle… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
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