Mercy Quotes - Page 35

• ...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Paradox, Primaries

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• Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy

  Max Lucado

  Ignorance, Grace, Clear

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Feb 06, 2015

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• A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Justice Of God, May

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• Why should I not hate mine enemies―if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Hate, Enemy, Doe

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• Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.

  Patricia Briggs

  Revelations, Adam, Middle

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.162, Penguin

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• I've bespelled this locket, for you; my own, my mate. The day has come when death forced us to part. You must know that I for you, forever, I shall wait. So until we meet again I hold your love safely within my heart. Remember, your oath was to temper strength with mercy. No matter how long apart we shall be, I hold you to that oath eternally... eternally...

  P. C. Cast

  Heart, Long, Waiting

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2014). “The House of Night Novellas, 4-Book Collection”, p.17, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Where's Amy?" Ian put in. "Will you please get her to call that Evan character? He rings here twenty times a day. He's either the most mule-headed person who ever lived, or he really likes your sister. She has to have mercy on him–on all of us!

  Gordon Korman

  Character, Twenties, Amy

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.108, Scholastic Inc.

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• This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.

  Matt Taibbi

  Thinking, People, Political

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

  Wendell Berry

  Rap, Tomorrow May Never Come, World

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, p.171, Counterpoint Press

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• If you are not with me, you are against me. I have no mercy for my enemies.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Enemy, Ifs

  Karen Marie Moning (2015). “Burned: Fever Series”, p.10, Delacorte Press

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• She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.277, e-artnow

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• There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day.

  Gena Showalter

  People, Musical

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.21, HQN Books

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• Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father, Heart, Men

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.352, Faber & Faber

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• Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.

  Kristin Cashore

  Murder, Harder, Frightening

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

  Ann Voskamp

  Grace, Shadow, Comfort

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.90, Zondervan

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

  Saint Augustine

  Innocence, Confession, Trusted

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.181, OUP Oxford

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• It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their "proportional responses" and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth.

  Harlan Coben

  Hurt, Enemy, Lessons

  Harlan Coben (2010). “Tell No One”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life's lessons.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Christian, Children, Growing Up

  "Harlequin". Book by Bernard Cornwell, 2000.

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• Ni muer ni viu ni no guaris, Ni mal no·m sent e si l’ai gran, Quar de s’amor no suy devis, Ni no sai si ja n’aurai ni quan, Qu’en lieys es tota le mercés Que·m pot sorzer o decazer.” “Not dying nor living nor healing, there is no pain in my sickness, for I am not kept from her love. I don’t know if I will ever have it, for all the mercy that makes me flourish or decay is in her power.

  Deborah Harkness

  Pain, Healing, Dying

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• The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.

  Stephen King

  Dust, Bird, Lows

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.52, Anchor

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• I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Crazy, Smart, People

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• There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to perfection. Or maybe it's just that I've lived inside of my head more than any other person in the history of the world. Maybe none of us can really predict how we will act at any give moment. Maybe we're all at the mercy of circumstance in spite of our well-laid plans.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Memories, Play, Giving

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• I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!"

  Chaim Potok

  Pain, Heart, Son

  "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok, (p. 264), 1967.

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• "Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.

  Patricia Briggs

  Sleep, Men, Closets

  "Blood Bound". Book by Patricia Briggs, January 30, 2007.

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• If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her onthat hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below.

  Juliet Marillier

  Stars, Lying, Kissing

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heir to Sevenwaters”, p.343, Pan Macmillan

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