(543 quotes found)
“To awaken the sleeping and rouse the loitering is a work of supreme mercy, and to seek the truth in everything and everywhere, reveal fraud, foolishness and ineptitude is a work of supreme religious piety.”
Miguel de Unamuno
“Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; / But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.”
Bible
“Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.”
“For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.”
“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”
Havelock Ellis
“Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.”
E. Howard Hunt
“Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.”
“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
