Pastoral Resources

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

The essence of justice is mercy.

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.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

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

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

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.

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.

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.