#mercy

Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woods, would be too much for them, for everybody. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#justice-without-mercy #loss-of-faith #retribution #revenge #the-big-peace

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. ↗

— Robert Bork

#another #another way #basic #being #democracy

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#before #carefully #justice #mercy #might

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. ↗

— John Calvin

#even #freedom #god #ignorance #inadvertently

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#although #brought #censure #god #happiness

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

#another #beyond #could #equal #extinction

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#crimes #fatal #first #further #had

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#mercy #shall #show

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#appeal #human #judges #laws #mercy

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

— Dorothy Day

#clothing #feeding #mercy #must #our