Mercy Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

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.

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.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

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

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

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

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

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

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

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