Mercy Quotes · Page 29

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

— William E. Gladstone

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Ungodliness is confronting the society and everyone seems to be at its mercy because of greed for pleasure.”

— Sunday Adelaja

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

— Dorothy Day

I only did four days on 'Just Mercy' at the same time I'm playing a cowboy in another movie.

— Rob Morgan

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

— Charles Spurgeon

Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.

— William Gurnall

I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't…

— Paddy Considine

Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this…

— Saint Blaise

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of…

— Suzanne Collins

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The oligarchs do not care what justice is, only what seems just. They do not care what mercy is, only what appears…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

— Dante Alighieri

“High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.”

— Dante Alighieri

Ramadan Mubarak, brothers and sisters of Islam! I hope you all take advantage of this sacred month. The month of Forgiveness and…

— Anonymous

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

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

If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow…

— Daniel Webster

God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He…

— Thomas Merton

This is our Lord’s will, that our prayer and our trust be both alike large. For if we trust not as much…

— Julian of Norwich

I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to…

— Vincent de Paul

. . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works…

— Vincent de Paul

“If damnation be justice, then mercy may choose its own object." - Jonathan Edwards”

— John Hendryx

God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.

— George Herbert

As I live in awareness of, growth in, and gratitude for mercy, my life will bring glory to Him

— Sandy Smith

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

— Thomas Aquinas

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

— Louis Dudek

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

— Heinrich Himmler

“Mercy lets a man sleep. Memory binds him to the tiller, rowing through grief’s endless stream.”

— Erica M. Goros

So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

— Charles Spurgeon

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

— George Eliot

The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.

— Boyd K. Packer

I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.

— Pope John XXIII

GRACE is when God gives us what we DON'T deserve! MERCY is when God DOESN'T give us what we DO deserve!

— Nishan Panwar

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

— Charles Kingsley

In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

— Mark Nepo

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

— William Penn

Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.

— Eugene Kennedy