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“I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.”

Ifs Air Mercy Rounds Wounds

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

“Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.”

Ifs Littles Book Play Kids Hurt Air Brother Mercy Down And Excitement Rising Leap Crash Little Kid Older Brother Up In The Air Rising Up Seesaw

Author:Anne Lamott

“and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people”

People Knows Giving Trying Looks Done Enough Play Home Moving Space Half Air Integrity Prove Mercy Limbs Not Alone Spires Steeples

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Then the old man's face hardened. "What about you young man?" he asked flatly. "Would you like to get what you deserve?" Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said "Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.”

Men Want Said Moments Faces Young Justice Air Deserve Mercy Young Man Old Man Hardened What You Deserve

Author:Andy Andrews

“The Queen of Air and Darkness tilted back her head and laughed. A more ghastly sound I hope never to hear. ‘Do you think I care about these trifles?’ ‘Murder is no trifle, woman,’ Arthur said. ‘No? How many men have you killed, Great King? How many have you slain without cause? How many did you cut down that you might have spared? How many died because you in your battle-rage would not heed their pleas for mercy?’ The High King opened his mouth to speak, but could make no answer.”

Thinking Men Said Might Care Speak Causes Sound Answers Darkness Cutting Air Kings Battle Mouths Mercy Murder Died Rage Queens Laughed I Care Trifles Heed Arthur Ghastly

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.”

Said Might Form Grows Natural Emotion Air Limits Mercy Eternity Faculty Seeming New Friends New Friendship Making New Friends

Book:The Friendship of Christ

Source: The Friendship of Christ

“Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.”

Men Spiritual Prayer Air Prove Mercy Praise Breaths Drawing Spiritual Life Petitions

Book:Matthew Henry Study Bible - KJV edition

Source: Matthew Henry Study Bible - KJV edition

“One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.”

Way Heart Struggle Air Goes On Mercy Legs One Time Helpless Bugs Flip Another Time Let Him Go Flailing

Author:Charles Portis