Mercy Quotes - Page 23

• When all else is changing within and around, in God and His mercy no change can be found.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Found

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• To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are my glory. But that you should turn from your own mercy, this is my sorrow. Spit on me, but, oh, repent! Laugh at me, but, oh, believe in my Master! Make my body as the dirt of the streets, but damn not your own souls!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Laughing, Soul

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1858). “Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London”, p.207

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• You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs - wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.

  Max Lucado

  Kindness, Skills, Challenges

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• The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.

  Richard Baxter

  Religious, Heart, Mean

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• Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

  William E. Gladstone

  Country, Swimming, Men

  Written in the diary, December 31, 1868.

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• Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.

  Mose Allison

  Oasis, Superhero, Mystery Men

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• [The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the practice, in a large and vicious community, is seldom consistent with the public safety.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Practice, Safety

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.152

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• According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it will not be denied, that tyrants of every age and sect are the best entitled to such infernal abodes.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Tyrants, Enemy

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• [The monks'] minds were inaccessible to reason or mercy . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Mind, Monk, Reason

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• [In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

  Edward Gibbon

  Religious, War, Byzantine

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• I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.

  Julianne Moore

  Directors, Producers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As we watch the world today, sometimes it seems that we`re at the mercy of events instead of shaping events. And a strong America`s essential to shape events, and a strong America, by the way, depends on a strong military.

  Mitt Romney

  Strong, Military, America

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent for Oakland's youth) can hardly afford such social justice follies. But a pushover Democratic mayor and an overwhelmed police force have left what's left of gainfully employed Oakland taxpayers at the mercy of professional freeloaders and anti-capitalism saboteurs.

  Michelle Malkin

  Cities, Oakland, Justice

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• Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.

  Dean Koontz

  Spirit, Creation, Volition

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Sole Survivor: A Novel”, p.402, Bantam

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• For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.

  Steven J Lawson

  Wrath, Perfect, Justice

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• Although God's people find many successes in the world, they must not fall prey to a spirit of pride. We succeed not because of our moral superiority but because of the faithfulness of our divine intercessor and because of the great mercy of God.

  Max Anders

  Fall, Pride, Mercy Of God

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• Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sleep, Blessing, Waiting

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1869). “Evening by Evening; Or, Readings at Eventide for the Family Or the Closet”, p.215

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• By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

  R. C. Sproul

  Differences, Justice, Definitions

  Twitter post from Apr 17, 2017

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• In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

  R. C. Sproul

  Capacity To Love, Incredibles, Tender Mercies

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2016

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• That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.

  Thomas Brooks

  Soul, Sorrow, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.12

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• The mercy of God is an all-embracing mercy and it breaks down the barriers that man erects.

  Alistair Begg

  Men, Mercy Of God, Breaking Down

  Twitter post from Apr 3, 2015

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• Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal - an expensive indulgence - because in their early incarnations they were no-holds-barred capitalists who made lots of enemies conducting business without mercy and in search of pure profit.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Enemy, Bills, Warren Buffet

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• I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I fear not death. . . Pardon my enemies, O Lord: blinded by passion they know not what they do. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Mary, Mother of God, succor me!

  Fidelis of Sigmaringen

  Mother, Jesus, Passion

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• The sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements.

  Thomas Brooks

  Hands, Judgement, Golden

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• We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

  Saint Augustine

  Mistake, Past, Needs

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