“Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.” WantLooksComfortDegreesMercyAffliction Author:Christopher Love
“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.” LawMastersDegreesMercyStrongerIndependenceLatterForbearance Book:The Will to Power Source: The Will to Power
“Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.” MindKnownBirthFameDegreesMercyIgnorantReputationEchoesFootstepsEnviousPosthumous Author:Anna Brownell Jameson
“Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.” MenHumansLyingFateConditionsMankindEventsDegreesMercyWaveEvery ManShipsMortalsMelancholyHuman ConditionBattered Book:Nature and Other Essays Source: Nature and Other Essays
“As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a certain degree you're at the mercy of what is available, what you're reading, what you become passionate about, and ultimately, what people want to hire you for.” PeopleWantWritingJobsCertainReadingActorsDegreesMercyPassionateAvailablePassive Author:Elijah Wood
“Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to another. But if we face a monopolist we are at his absolute mercy. And an authority directing the whole economic system of the country would be the most powerful monopolist conceivable…it would have complete power to decide what we are to be given and on what terms. It would not only decide what commodities and services were to be available and in what quantities; it would be able to direct their distributions between persons to any degree it liked.” IfsPersonsCountryWholeFactsWould BeAbleFacesTurnsChoicesGivenWishTermPowerfulEconomicDegreesAuthorityDirectMercyAbsolutesRefuseAvailableMost PowerfulQuantityCommodityDistributionFreedom Of ChoiceEconomic Systems Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.” PeopleKindMeanDoeChristianCoursesReligiousWhiteQualityMoralKindnessPositiveDegreesBibleNegativeMercyWordsChristian InspirationalScripturePurityHolinessEditorsIntensityPreacherMentorWholenessPastorReally MeanPietyGodliness Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.” IfsKnowsWisdomSpiritualLawKnowledgeHellDivinePureDegreesMercyImportanceAgentsParadiseConsiderationGrantsSoleAccordAdorationRecompenseDivine LawDivine Mercy Author:Abdelkader El Djezairi
“The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.” MenWorldHumansMayWarMomentsTodayOrderForceHuman BeingsMillionsModernEventsRevolutionDegreesMindfulnessHappeningsMercyMadnessIndependenceWar Of The WorldsBeastThreatenedCatastrophePsychicsEarthquakesAnother WorldEpidemicsModern ManElementalsBatteredWild BeastsSmittenLandslides Author:Carl Jung
“Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.” MenNeedsShouldChildrenMadeDesirePurposeCan DoDegreesJudgmentMen And WomenMercyAidsDependentMutualPurpose Of LifeDependenceGoodwillMade For Each Other Book:Emile Source: Emile