Browsing Quotes With Tag: mercy (5)
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If Christ hadn’t delivered the Sermon on the Mount, with its message of mercy and pity, I wouldn’t want to be a human being – I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:38 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am enchanted by the Sermon on the Mount. Being merciful, it seems to me, is the only good idea we have had so far. Perhaps we will get another good idea by and by. And then, we will have two good ideas.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This is the shape of our world: tit for tat until we’re all dead and cheshires lap at our blood
Speaker: Paolo BacigalupiSource: the Windup GirlPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 7:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.
Speaker: Cormac McCarthySource: the RoadPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man cannot love his God, and hate his brother: he cannot expect mercy, who shows none.
Speaker: S. M. M'CorklePosted: 14 Oct 2009 at 8:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!