God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.
If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.
I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't
Kindness is like mercy: it blesses him that gives and him that takes.
The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.
I'm kind of at the mercy of writers out there. I need a writer out there who wants to write a vehicle for me. Do it and get it to me immediately. I do want to be a lead. I want to play a lead role in a movie.
I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see them at all, that we recoil and hide our eyes, and no one has ever cringed at the sight of a soybean factory. I also know phony arguments when I hear them--unbridled appetite passing itself off as altruism, and human arrogance in the guise of solemn 'duty. ' We must, as C. S. Lewis advises, 'reject with detestation that covert propoganda for cruelty which tries to drive mercy out of the world by calling it names such as 'Humanitarianism' and 'Sentimentality.
Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.
MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown.
The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.
I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat. , Pulchrum est vitam donare minori. ]
. . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations of situations that are insane or absurd. . . . At first I thought the events had power in themselves, that I would just present them. I really wasn't aware of the things that finally became central issues to me - the shifting alliances, the way people hardly even know they've shifted. That part of [A QUESTION OF MERCY] is very familiar to me in terms of my other plays.
I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.