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Mercy Quote by David Farr

“It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.” quote by David Farr — Download Open image

“It's a very bleak play, but there is some final sense of redemption. 'Coriolanus' shows mercy, a Christian virtue in an otherwise un-Christian world.”

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May the gods have mercy on whoever pisses them off, because Zarek and Jericho will have none for them. (Madoc) You’d better be glad…

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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Marvellous mercies and infinite love.

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If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and…

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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“Smiling, she went for his throat and almost had him, when—using a move that was all sorts of illegal—he flipped her again so her front pressed into the leaf-laden ground, her wrists still locked in his iron grip and pinned above her head. “Cheater.” “So says the woman who tried to kick my balls into my throat,” he pointed out,…

I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without…

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of…

Giacomo Casanova

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Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Terry Pratchett

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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

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“Jesus came to give his righteousness not to condemn the unrighteous.”

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