Mercy quotes
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"What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not."
"I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!"
"Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been."
"There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life."
"The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance."
"The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me."
"Mercy often inflicts death."
"Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property."
"Let us be merciful as well as just."
"Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them."
"Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature."
"Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness"
"When prayers are strongest, mercies are nearest."
"Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business."
"The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets."
"Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment."
"Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?"
"Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence."
"If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell."
"Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us."
