Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vera Brittain

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

William Blake

Time is the Mercy of Eternity

William Gurnall

Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.

Stephenie Meyer

...humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

Graham Greene

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

Francis Quarles

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

Harvey Weinstein

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.

Joseph Addison

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let us be merciful as well as just.

John Donne

All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

John Bunyan

...Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty...

Lucian

Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.

Thomas Merton

Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.

William Camden

Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.