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mercy

«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»
«I want to put myself absolutely at your mercy for good or evil without any condition, without any limit to your power.»
«Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending»
«Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.»
«He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan»
«But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. (Psalms 13:5)»
Author: Bible | Keywords: mercy, Psalms, rejoice, salvation, trusted
«As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe (Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer) | About: Poets, Reason | Keywords: mercy, prefect, reasoned
«Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.»
«A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy»
«All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope»