#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

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

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

— Dorothy Day

#clothing #feeding #mercy #must #our

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#buried #consists #deeply #fundamental #lies

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

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

#being #brutal #career #control #days

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