Mercy Quotes

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

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

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

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.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.