Mercy quotes
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"'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands and ten thousands, were your power and command as great as the bloody Roman emperors' formerly was."
"...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy."
"The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy."
"I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another."
"All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons."
"But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God."
"Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball."
"When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy ."
"I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy."
"There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy."
"Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us."
"God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!"
"Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone."
"The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool."
"A God all mercy is a God unjust."
"If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood."
"I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy."
"God's grace, quite simply, is God's mercy and goodness toward us."
"Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned."
"Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release."
