Top 25 Mercy Quotes of 343 - Page 11

Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.

Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.

Blow, Heaven, Mercy

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Jean Cocteau

Friendship, Realizing, Mercy

Vogue, May 1984.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Literature, Mercy, Firmness

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1324, Delphi Classics

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

Hannah More

Prayer, Sometimes, Mercy

'Moses in the Bulrushes' (1782) pt. 1, l. 35

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Mercy, Paradox

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

Ellen Barkin

Diners, Firsts, Mercy

"Actress-producer Ellen Barkin". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2011.

When prayers are strongest, mercies are nearest.

Edward Reynolds

Prayer, Mercy, Strongest

Edward Reynolds (1838). “Israel's prayer in time of trouble: with God's gracious answer; an explication of the fourteenth chapter of Hosea, in seven sermons, preached upon days of solemn humiliation”, p.19

Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

Edmund Spenser

Hope, Mercy, Having Hope

Edmund Spenser (1758). “Spenser's Faerie Queene”, p.166

Where mercy is shown, mercy is given.

Duane Chapman

Mercy, Given

"Dog the Bounty Hunter" (2003-2012). "Meet the Chapmans", www.imdb.com. 2004.

Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.

Dalai Lama

Mercy, Climate Change, Humans

When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

Charles Spurgeon

Desire, Praying, Mercy

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life”, p.51, YWAM Publishing

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

Charles Dickens

Scrooge, Charity, Mercy

Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.33

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

Bill Vaughan

Helping, Mercy, Best God

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

Benjamin Whichcote

Becoming, Mercy, Submission