When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
It is within you that the divine lives.
Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
It is healthy to say, 'Yes, I am a sinner,' and to recognise that this should lead us to turn to God full of confidence in his love and mercy.
Love is a divine flame.
For God to reveal His Son in us is not the result of research or searching; it is entirely a matter of mercy and revelation. It is an inward seeing, an inner knowing.
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.
I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.
Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball.
The divine art is the story.
Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.
This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.
Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.
Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.
Let us never forget this, he is pure mercy, let us go to Jesus!
...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.
That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.
Inner life is Divine.
In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
Enthusiasm is a divine possession.
Messi has a divine gift.
I have a hard time understanding how cutting the program in our country that provides healthcare to working families by $800 billion can be classified as mercy.
Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.
Grace, like an angel of mercy, makes his voice heard sweet and clear, repeating the story of the cross, the matchless love of Jesus.
Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.
I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.
Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.
The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.
The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.
It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
God's grace, quite simply, is God's mercy and goodness toward us.
Kindness is like mercy: it blesses him that gives and him that takes.
[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.
As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.
If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.
There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.
To exercise is human; not to is divine.
BlackBerrys are divine instruments.
Management has no divine rights.
All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.
This is what meditation means: how to be not identified with the mind - how to create a space between yourself and your own mind. It is difficult because we never make any separation. We go on thinking in terms that the mind means me: mind and me are totally identified. If they are totally identified, then you will never be at peace; then you will never be able to enter the divine, because the divine can be entered only when the social has been left behind.
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.
No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly.
Whoever feels mercy for the cruel is bound to eventually be cruel to the merciful.
I believe in divine intervention.
It's a divine art to be cheerful.
The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.
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