Mercy Quotes - page 3

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes. (Sri Aurobindo)
You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it. View quote
William Penn
Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive The first is law, the last prerogative. View quote
John Dryden
We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean. View quote
Julian of Norwich
The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians. View quote
Sarah Grimké
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. View quote
Meir Kahane
... mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God. View quote
Dean Koontz
I wish that we had much more of the Spirit of Christ and a great deal less self, and less of human opinions. If we err, let it be on the side of mercy rather than on the side of condemnation and harsh dealing. View quote
Ellen G. White
All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging-sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy. View quote
Abby Sunderland
Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination. (Lucy Parsons)
I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
There is mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought! Gives even affliction a grace And reconciles man to his lot. View quote
William Cowper
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. View quote
Gary Snyder
The brave love mercy, and delight to save. View quote
John Gay
Chance and change are busy ever; Man decays, and ages move; But His mercy waneth never; God is wisdom, God is love. View quote
John Bowring
Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Hark how all the welkin rings,, "Glory to the Kings of kings; Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!" Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. Universal nature say "Christ is born today!" View quote
Charles Wesley
Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them? View quote
Charles Kingsley
Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works. View quote
Charles Kingsley
Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage: for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse. (Baruch Spinoza)
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. View quote
Alexander Smith
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. View quote
John Calvin
But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God. View quote
John Calvin
By the mercy of the Lord, you have been given a guru, so your selflessness is simply a matter of serving your guru with more love and care. Give up all of your individualized desires and live for his pleasure, as he lived and lives for you. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami