Mercy Quotes - Page 19

• The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and powerlessness before God, and who cast themselves on His mercy. Startled by the extravagant love of God, they do not require success, fame, wealth, or power to validate their worth.  Their spirit transcends all distinctions between the powerful and powerless, educated and illiterate, billionaires and bag ladies, high-tech geeks and low-tech nerds, males and females, the circus and the sanctuary.

  Brennan Manning

  Powerful, Sight, Nerd

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• Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life...The Church's very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love...Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instills in us the courage to look to the future with hope.

  Pope Francis

  Church, Foundation, New Life

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• The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

  Billy Graham

  News, Wonderful, Lord

  "Evangelist Billy Graham leaves hospital", www.cnn.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Law, Judging

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.337, Cambridge University Press

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• The king-becoming graces,
  As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,
  Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
  Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
  I have no relish of them, but abound
  In the division of each several crime,
  Acting in many ways.

  William Shakespeare

  Perseverance, Kings, Justice

  William Shakespeare (2002). “Macbeth”, p.186, Barron's Educational Series

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• To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust;
  But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.

  William Shakespeare

  Sin, Defence, Grants

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.385

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• Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Powerful, Motherhood, Two

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• The worst criminals of our time are the US and UK governments. Both are devoid of all integrity, all honor, all mercy, all humanity. Many members of both governments would have made perfect functionaries in Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Integrity, Russia, Government

  Paul Craig Roberts (2014). “How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State”, p.378, Atwell Publishing

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• Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Compassion, Suffering

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• The giant wave of the science has no mercy; when this colossal wave comes, it will sweep away anything untrue!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Giants, Wave

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• I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Believe, Heart, Humble

  Address to the Nation Pardoning Richard M. Nixon, delivered on September 8, 1974, Washington D.C.

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• If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses, but if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages, then they're at the mercy of their employers. If the workers know they'll be ruined if they lost their jobs, they're not going to be uppity. You want to break their spirit.

  Michael Lind

  Education, Jobs, Health

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• There is no mercy in trading life for life. And certainly no righteousness. Mercy, once given, cannot be taken back.

  Janet Morris

  Life, Taken, Given

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.82, Paradise Publishing

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• Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.

  Leonard Cohen

  Departed, Gone

  Song: Sisters Of Mercy, 1967

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• Heaven always shower His mercy on us and we return it with our cruelty

  Aftab Alam

  Heaven, Return, Showers

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• Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

  Jack London

  Misunderstood, Made, Misunderstanding

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear. They sin, but there is no limit to God's mercy and because this is important, there is a difference between not confessing in fact, and the complacent and the pious may not realize it.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Writing, Differences

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.

  Lord Hailsham

  Punishment, Justice, Criminals

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• Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God.

  Jonathan Morris

  Motivation, Compassion, People

  "Father Jonathan Morris talks about working with Mel Gibson, Fox News, self-help books and running The Catholic Channel on SiriusXM". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. June 2012.

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• If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Suffering, Affliction

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous”, p.525

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• Asking for forgiveness from others in a scriptural manner involves acknowledging that you have sinned against them and that you desire mercy and pardon (not to be given what you deserve). Asking for forgiveness is vital for reconciliation and may lead to the difference in the relationship.

  John C. Broger

  Forgiveness, Differences, Desire

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• When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die. I've got to be in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most heart attacks on television.

  Alan Dale

  Book, Heart, Television

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.

  Addison Webster Moore

  Revenge, Gun, White

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• If my jeans could talk, they'd plead for mercy.

  Phyllis Diller

  Jeans, Ifs

  Phyllis Diller (1981). “The joys of aging--and how to avoid them: can sex keep you young? And other silly questions”, Doubleday Books

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• To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better. Satan and the rebellious saints of Heaven were allowed a continuous existence in hell merely to swell their just punishment. To such as would rebel against a Government so mild and just as ours was in peace, a punishment equal would not be unjust.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Government, Law, Punishment

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