Mercy Quotes

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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.

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.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

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

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

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.

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.

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.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

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.