#mercy

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

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

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

— Winston Churchill

#mercy #shall #show

Love is faith in action." ~R. Alan Woods [2006] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#faith #love #mercy #r-alan-woods #faith

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

#i #i can #i think #insular #kind

A God all mercy is a God unjust. ↗

— Edward Young

#mercy #unjust

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world. ↗

— Billy Graham

#give me #god #grace #hope #me

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin. ↗

— William Gurnall

#ashamed #make #mercy #should #sin

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

— Mark Hopkins

#buckets #descends #god #like #mercy

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#justice #mercy #death