Mercy Quotes - page 2

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. (Frederick William Robertson)
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. View quote
Milan Kundera
Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor. View quote
John Chrysostom
Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy. View quote
Sebastian Barry
When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it. View quote
Tilman J. Fertitta
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy. View quote
Leon Bourgeois
I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. View quote
Gerrit Smith
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom. View quote
Maria Weston Chapman
I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul. (Bobby Sands)
In order to receive forgiveness, we need to place our trust in Christ as our Savior and the Lord of our lives. But if we reject Christ, then we reject God's mercy and fall back on His justice. And you know where you stand there. If we reject Jesus' offer of forgiveness, then there is simply is no one else to pay the penalty for your sin – except yourself. View quote
William Lane Craig
I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavouring to make our fellow creatures happy. View quote
Thomas Paine
For it is said, "You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him," that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need. View quote
Maimonides
Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us. View quote
Chris Hedges
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. View quote
Graham Greene
My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns; Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns; The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals; The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls. View quote
Robert Southwell
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies! View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Our rule is the works of mercy... It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence. View quote
Dorothy Day
And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us. (Henry Ward Beecher)
I believe in goodness Mercy and charity I believe in a universal spirit I believe in casting bread Upon the waters. View quote
Leonard Nimoy
The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy. View quote
Robert Jordan
The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity. View quote
Robert Jordan
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal. View quote
George Bernard Shaw