M Quotes
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“Mercy surpasses justice.”
Source: Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation
“Mercy that defies memory unlocks miracles that history never saw coming—because grace doesn’t ask permission from pain to rewrite the ending.
S/N - Mercy cannot coexist with grudges snd guilt. Mercy says: “ I remember who you are, not what you did.” Decide to choose compassion over recollection and watch God bless you!
Genesis 50:20
“You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good…”
→ Forgiveness reframes betrayal into breakthrough. What wounded you becomes what God uses to elevate you christianity.
Let’s GO!”
“Mercy, though crucial, brings us through, but grace adds an extra touch of God's goodness.”
Source: When You Don't Know What to Pray: How to Talk to God about Anything
“Mercy to all mankind.”
“Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“Mercy trumps justice.”
“Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“Mercy unearned undeserved, unnecessary. If it isn't all of those it isn't Mercy.
If you think people have to earn it, deserve it, or it is necessary to do it, you have lost the mystery of Mercy and forgiveness”
Source: The Sermon on the Mount
“Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder, and Randa didn't deserve it. And even though she wanted what the voice wanted, she didn't think she had the courage for it.”
Source: Graceling
“Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.”
Source: Graceling
“Mercy Watson is a pig. She lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson, who are not pigs. I had that basic premise, but I couldn't make it work. I would come back to it, try it, see that I was failing, and put it aside.”
“Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.”
“Mercy Watson is pure fun for me as a writer, because I think of her as kind of sorbet - a palate cleanser - between larger works. It's always a relief to come back to her.”
“Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.”
“Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving God. Just by looking at him, just raising our eyes from ourselves and our wounds, we leave an opening for the action of his grace. Jesus performs miracles with our sins, with what we are, with our nothingness, with our wretchedness.”
Source: The Name of God is Mercy
“Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.”
Source: Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Mercy will we overcome this
Oh one by one could we turn it around
Maybe carry on just a little bit longer
And I try to give you what you need”
“Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.”
“Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?”
“mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“Mercy, it's the revolution and I'm in my bathrobe!”
Source: We Ate Wonder Bread
“Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.”
“MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.”
Source: The Poems: With Specimens of the Prose Writings, of William Blake
“Mercy, Pity, Peace
Is the world's release.”
Source: Blake: The Complete Poems
“Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.”
Source: Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.”
Source: River Marked
“Mercy," said my mother thoughtfully, "you never told me your werewolf neighbor was quite that hot.”
Source: Bone Crossed
“Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.”
“Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.”
Source: Bone Crossed
“Merda! Her lace panties had snagged on his ring, the signet ring he'd inherited from his father, Giacomo Casanova. His father had seduced hundred of women without any problems whatsoever, and he was having trouble with just one. This was the real reason he never used the Casanova name. He could never live up to his father's reputation. The old man was probably laughing in his grave.
Nine circles of hell," Jack muttered.
Hell?" Lara asked. "I thought I was the Holy Land."
You're paradise. Unfortunately, I am stuck there."
Her eyes widened. "Stuck?"
Normally, I would love being stuck to your lovely bum, but it would look odd if we go sightseeing with my hand under your skirt. Especially in the basilica."
She glanced down. "How can you be stuck?"
My ring. It's caught in the lace. See?" He moved his hand down her hip, dragging her undies down a few inches.
Okay, stop." She bit her lip, frowning, then suddenly giggled. "I can't believe this has happened."
I assure you, as much as I had hoped to get your clothes off, this was not part of my original plan."
She snorted. "No problem. Just rip yourself loose."
Are you sure?" It will destroy you undies."
She narrowed her eyes with a seductuve look. "Rip it."
Very well." He jerked his hand away, but the panties came with him. He yanked his hand back and forth, but the lacy, latex material simply stretched with him. "Santo cielo, they are indestructible."
Lara laughed.
He continued to wage battle, but to no avail. "They could use this material to build spaceships.”
Source: Secret Life of a Vampire
“Merdeka!' the Malay man screamed.
'Merdekaaaaaa!' the sea of people echoed.”
Source: Confrontation
“merdekakan jiwa
merdekakan pikiran
dari penjajahan pribadi yang kita buat sendiri-sendiri
dari amarah dan dendam
maafkan, maafkan, maafkan
lalu mungkin lupakan”
Source: Anak Rantau
“Merdivenden aşağıya inerken eğer aşağıdan çok kuvvetli bir rüzgâr esiyorsa şöyle düşünmekte bir fayda olabilir: Belki de evren yukarı çıkmanı istiyordur!”
“Merdivenler seni yükseltir; ahlak seni yükseltir; iyilik seni yükseltir; farkındalık seni yükseltir; bilgelik seni yükseltir.”
“Merdivenlerden yukarı neşeyle çık, merdivenlerden aşağı neşeyle in! Zihnin, hayatın çıkış ve inişlerinden etkilenmesin!”
“Merdivensiz, tepesiz ve dağsız bir yaşam dilemek, kendi çabalarımızla yükselme keyfinin olmadığı sönük bir yaşam dilemektir!”
“Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.”
“Mere abuse is no criticism.”
Source: The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse
“Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.”
Source: Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences
“Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission.”
Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.”
“Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.”
“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.”
“Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.”
Source: Pyramids: (Discworld Novel 7)
“Mere baad meri kitaab tere saath rahegi humesha, mein khatam ho raha hu ab dheere-dheere”
Source: Sukoon
“Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.”
Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd
“Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.”
Source: The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes
“Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation