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Sunday, May 19th, 2024
Pentacost
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Mercy'

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I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
Philip Levine, American Poet (1928-  )
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln, American President (1809-1865)
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet (1807-1882)
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino, American Author (1923-1996)
This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.
Catherine McAuley, Irish Clergyman
Most people call me Mercy. I like it.
Mercedes McCambridge, American Actress (1916-2004)
I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
Barry McGuire, American Musician (1937-  )
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
Herman Melville, American Novelist (1819-1891)
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
Thomas Merton, American Author (1915-1968)
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Kelly Miller, American Sociologist (1863-1939)
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
Gilbert Murray, British Diplomat (1866-1957)
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian (1947-  )
People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
Gary Oldman, English Actor (1958-  )
Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.
Roy Orbison, American Musician (1936-1988)
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine, English Writer (1737-1809)
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
William Penn, English Leader (1644-1718)
Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.
William Pennington, American Lawyer (1796-1862)
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
Ann Plato, -
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope, English Poet (1688-1744)
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
Frederick William Robertson, English Clergyman (1816-1853)
 
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