Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
Whoever feels mercy for the cruel is bound to eventually be cruel to the merciful.
Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.
I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
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.
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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.
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.
Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.
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.
You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.
Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.