Merciful Quotes

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It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who… — Graham Greene
God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but… — Elisabeth Elliot
Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream. — H P Lovecraft
O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom… — Benjamin Franklin
And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not. — Brom
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A little bloodthirsty, isnâ€™t it? (Kim) Given what they did to Tory, Iâ€™m thinking a quick death is merciful. Not to mention they ruined one… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat… — Saadat Hasan Manto
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . . — Arthur Conan Doyle
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths"… — Charles Spurgeon
Must be nice to have that kind of unshakable belief in a merciful higher power. — Ellen Hopkins
Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living… — Rabindranath Tagore
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition… — Jane Austen
The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk,… — Neil Gaiman
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its… — Virginia Woolf
One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; â€” hung it with… — Edgar Allan Poe
Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful! — Anne Bishop
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, the demand that… — Kurt Vonnegut
Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of… — Wilkie Collins
On that very night, the night of the greatest suffering that has ever taken place in the world or that ever will take place, the… — Jeffrey R. Holland

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