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“In that year [1865] John Muir offered to buy from his brother ... a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.”

Years Stills Ideas Natural Land Youth Brother Birth Mercy Sanctuary Wisconsin Wild And Free Wildflowers

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!”

Ideas Youth Mercy Mercy Of God

Book:Max

Source: Max

“People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.”

People Ideas Acting Careers Mercy Engineers Desks

Author:Gary Oldman

“I’m a goddess of destruction. Tell me honestly that you find nothing exciting about the idea of a billion people screaming out for mercy when there’s no one left who cares what befalls them. Of the entire earth being rained on by all manner of demons bent on ultimate torture and sacrifice. Them ripping and shredding human flesh as they claw in a drunken frenzy fueled by their hatred of everything. Drinking blood in an orgy of terror...ahhh, the beauty of annihilation. There’s nothing like it.(Apollymi)”

Source: Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.”

Ideas Facts Mercy Avoiding Hearing God

Author:Dallas Willard

“There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as "worship" in case we believe in a Personal God. Here we give up all the fruits our work unto the Lord, and worshipping Him thus, we have no right to expect anything from man kind for the work we do.”

Men Way Giving Believe Kind Ideas Lord Practice Cases Giving Up Worship Mercy Charity Fruit Selfless Another Way

Book:Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action

Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action

“The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain.”

Mind May Ideas Moments Happens Truth Science Turns Attention Mercy Core Friendly Conception Usefulness Grudge Unfamiliar Unafraid Uselessness

Author:Wilfred Trotter

“Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!”

“The idea that the Christian god is just, is directly contradicted by the idea that the Christian god is merciful. Perfect justice and any mercy are necessarily directly in contradiction, because mercy is a suspension of justice.”

Ideas Christian Justice Perfect Mercy Contradiction Merciful Suspension Christian God

Author:Matt Dillahunty

“The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I'm deserving of God's mercy, I'll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard.”

Ifs Knows Needs Ideas Mercy Connected Beard Deserving Trust Myself

Author:Matisyahu

“. . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy . . .”

Ideas Spiritual Spirit Faith Evil Fine Mercy Salvation Extraordinary Suggestions Pretext Evil Spirits Jeopardize

Author:Vincent de Paul

“The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.”

Humans Ideas Hard Justice Responsibility Mercy Reconcile Determinism

Author:Ken MacLeod