“There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores.” StoriesReligionDivineCapacityMercyDoctrineOfficialsAlmightyTheologianInfantReconcileDamnationDivine Mercy Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has been marching since the beginning of time. Where Martin Luther King started is where Gandhi left off, and where he started, Abe Lincoln left off, and before that Whitfield all the way back to Moses. God has not moved. We have. But it is never too late. We are not at the mercy of these events. We can alter the course of history. We can stand against the dangerous arc of this story. But we need people who are willing to speak truth.” PeopleWayNeedsBelieveHas BeensEndsStoriesCoursesLeftSpeakRightsDangerousEventsMovementWillingKingsLateMercyBlindMovedCivil RightsToo LateLutherMosesCivil Rights MovementSpeak The TruthArcsNever Too LateAbe Author:Glenn Beck
“I mean these are universal themes. I try not to preach, for sure. I don't enjoy movies that preach - so I don't want to preach myself when I tell stories because I just feel all of these themes are built into us in terms of redemption and mercy and love and compassion and all these things. And the negative sides, as well.” WantFeelsTryingWellsMeanStoriesEnjoySidesTermCompassionBuiltNegativeMercyAnd LoveUniversalRedemptionThemeLove And CompassionUniversal Themes Author:Michael Landon, Jr.
“I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.” ThinkingWayFeelsKindPlayStoriesLaughingReaderOptimismMercyHopefullyThink Of MeWatsonMake Me Laugh Author:Kate DiCamillo
“And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice.” StoriesLeftGoneMercyReputationWickedWitchAlasMaliceEver AfterLife StoryWicked WitchWicked Witch Of The West Author:Gregory Maguire
“This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.” PeopleThinkingFirstsWellsKindStoriesProblemBigsHappensPoliticalDealsAttentionEconomyGroupsEconomicCenturyExampleBuiltMercyUltimateTwentiesCrisisComplexesRight ThingBig ProblemsEconomic SystemsSmall GroupsAttention SpanScum Author:Matt Taibbi
“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.” SoulStoriesEyeStarsPerfectIgnoranceMercyTerrorTerrorismSilverCoveredCalligraphy Book:I Made My Boy Out of Poetry Source: I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
“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.” ThinkingMenMindHumansHas BeensStoriesActionProgressIgnoranceTaughtDependsMercyStupidityInvisiblePriestsHuman MindPrimitiveReservedPhantomsReveriePerpetuatingIgnorance And Fear Author:Baron d'Holbach
“Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.” MenCountryStoriesSufferingDarknessMountainMercyAccidentsDnaChipsMineralsMiningChile Author:Ariel Dorfman