Mercy Quotes

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.
Charlie Hunnam

Life, Career, Control

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
William Gurnall

Afraid, Sin, Ashamed

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.
Jo Stafford

Songs, Suffer, Performer

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.
Jane Grey

Great, God, Heart

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.
Rose Byrne

Important, Career, Control

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
Whittaker Chambers

Faith, Society, Sick

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.
Frank Knox

Today, True, Thought

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
Ken MacLeod

Alone, Justice, Human

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
Kate DiCamillo

Character, Whatever, Head

I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
Barry McGuire

Money, Year, Next

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.
Dwight Yoakam

Music, Wait, Choose

Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.
Michael Servetus

God, Jesus, Son

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
Michael Servetus

God, May, Errors

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
Dorothy Day

Together, Works, Brothers

Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.
Germanicus

Whether, Gods, Gold

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
William E. Simon

Important, Writing, Works

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
Mark Hopkins

God, Two, Prayer

Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.
Ariel Dorfman

Men, History, Down

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
Richard Francis Burton

Time, Enemy, Whose

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
John Foxe

Him, Christian, Far

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.
Kelly LeBrock

This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.
Catherine McAuley

True, Spirit, Order

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
Anselm of Canterbury

Justice, Through, Punish

The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them.
William Laud

Peace, May, Christian

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.
Jon Lee Anderson

Bad, Through, Before

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
Maria Weston Chapman

Love, Power, Truth

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.
Billy Hughes

Justice, Portrait, Painted

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

Leadership, Assumes

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.
Heinrich Himmler

Struggle, Stand, Carry

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