Mercy Quotes

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.

I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.

Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

There can be no mercy without truth.

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

When prayers are strongest, mercies are nearest.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

While the Bibles account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.

I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

O good Jesu Thou has bound my heart in the thought of Thy Name, and now I can not but sing it; therefore have mercy upon me, making perfect that Thou hast ordained.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.

The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

Embrace more deeply His love, His mercy and grace, and the powerful gifts of His Atonement.

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

May we always say thank you to God, especially for his patience and mercy.

Jesus’ Cross shows the full force of evil, but also the full power of God’s mercy.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.