Mercy Quotes

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.

I'm happy to try any genre, from drama to comedy and anything in between. Although, to be fair, for most of my career, I've been at the mercy of what people are willing to put me in.

To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood.

A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.

If you come with mercy but not justice; that's called enabling.

Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.

God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.

Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.

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.

In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

[The monks'] minds were inaccessible to reason or mercy . . .

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.

When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.

Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

... justice is mercy's highest self.

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

There was something so best-musical-ever when people screamed and begged for mercy, and she could listen to a good musical all day.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth are never separable in Catholic pastoral life.

[Pope Francis] has felt the mercy of God in his own life and wants to share that experience with others.

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

As an actor, you are at the mercy of others for what role you can be seen for and then what you will be cast in.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all.

As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy of more powerful forces in our society.

No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout.

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.