#mercy

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

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

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#individuality #love #mercy #love

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

— Heinrich Himmler

#firm #mercy #only #racial #stand

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#christ #duty #either #forget #god

It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#away #cast #christ #could #death

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government. ↗

— Jim Costa

#indian #indian tribes #mercy #often #political

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#entering #ferocity #grants #hearing #makes

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

— John Foxe

#being #christian #far #him #jew

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#god #life #me #mercy #my life