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“That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN”

Source: Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker

“Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy”

Clear Grace Ignorance Mercy

Author:Max Lucado

“Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.”

Soul Stories Eye Stars Perfect Ignorance Mercy Terror Terrorism Silver Covered Calligraphy

Book:I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

Source: I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

“The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.”

World Evil Ignorance Mercy Wickedness Malice

Book:Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

“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.”

Would Be Prayer Ignorance Praying Mercy Tolerate Pardon Stammering

Book:Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion

Source: Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion

“Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger nor Annoyance. Where there is Poverty and Joy, there is neither Cupidity nor Avarice. Where there is Peace and Contemplation, there is neither Care nor Restlessness. Where there is the Fear of God to guard the dwelling, there no enemy can enter. Where there is Mercy and Prudence, there is neither Excess nor Harshness.”

Care Joy Christianity Enemy Poverty Humility Ignorance Mercy Contemplation Excess Prudence Dwelling Avarice Restlessness Annoyance Harshness Love And Wisdom

Book:Writings

Source: Writings

“How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.”

“O Mary Mother of Mercy and Refuge of Sinners! We beseech thee to look with pitying eyes on poor heretics and schismatics. Do thou, who art the Seat of Wisdom, enlighten the minds wretchedly enfolded in the darkness of ignorance and sin, that they may clearly recognize the Holy, Catholic, Roman Church to be the only true Church of Jesus Christ, outside of which neither sanctity nor salvation can be found.”

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Author:Pope Pius XII

“My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in spite of my ugly deeds”

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Author:Ibn Ata Allah

“When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.”

Believe Country Grows Music Growing Up Ignorance Mercy Rounds Willful Ignorance

Author:Ani DiFranco

“And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif of the soul as a skiff, abandoned on the infinite sea of desires, in the sterile field of cares and ignorance, among the mirages of knowledge, amid the unreason of the world - a craft at the mercy of the sea's great madness, unless it throws out a solid anchor, faith, or raises its spiritual sails so that the breath of God may bring it to port.”

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.”

“Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise.”

Source: Healology