Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet. . . and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some. . . some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.
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.
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.
You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.
I offer you salvation this day; the door of mercy is not yet shut, there does yet remain a sacrifice for sin, for all that will accept of the Lord Jesus Christ. He will embrace you in the arms of His love.
Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.
Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!
Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.
Temper justice with mercy.
There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.
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.
The tender mercies of the Lord are available to all of us and. . . the Redeemer of Israel is eager to bestow such gifts upon us.
My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.
Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.