Mercy Quotes
Reflections on compassion, grace, and choosing forgiveness.
These lines treat mercy as something higher than mere charity, with one speaker arguing that acts of mercy outweigh any check written to a cause. Another frames mercy as a quality rulers should borrow from higher ideals rather than wield sparingly. Explore Compassion for a closely related set.
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
Compassion Quotes
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.
When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.
Emotion Quotes
Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.
As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.
It is my conviction that becoming economically and socially vulnerable puts you at the mercy of people surrounding you. It is as if you no longer exist as a human being and are no longer worthy of respect.
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to...
Forgiveness Quotes
The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
Only by God's mercy and grace. We aren't worthy, we're all sinners, but we are because of Jesus dying for us.
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 fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
Grace Quotes
Whoever feels mercy for the cruel is bound to eventually be cruel to the merciful.
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A recurring thread ties mercy to humility, suggesting it should leave us a little ashamed of our own shortcomings even as it restrains harsher impulses. Continue with Forgiveness or Grace for more on this theme.
