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The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.
Joseph Pilates
The Pilates Method imparts the ability to reign over one's physicality, not be subject to it.
2.
Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.
Pope Francis
Let the Church be a sanctuary of mercy, solace and expectation, where all are invited, cherished and pardoned.
3.
They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
Jonathan Edwards
'Those who earnestly seek God's benevolence, do so as supplicants and not as creditors: they seek only compassion, for divine generosity, not anything that is owed.'
4.
He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.
Julius Caesar
'Victory is twice as sweet for those who show leniency towards the vanquished.'
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I am where God wills me to be, and so I have found rest and security. His wisdom governs me, His power defends me, His grace sanctifies me, His mercy encompasses me, His joy sustains me and all will go well with me.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
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Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
Saint John Chrysostom
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I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything.
Pope John XXIII
10.
May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
12.
Peace on earth, and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled.
Charles Wesley
13.
Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ.
Philipp Melanchthon
14.
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
J. C. Ryle
15.
I have not been sent to curse people, but as a mercy to all mankind.
Muhammad
16.
But I got this far, didnāt I?ā he said slowly. āThey thought Iād die in the attempt, but Iām here . . . and youāre in my power. . . . Iām the one with the wand. . . . youāre at my mercy. . .
J. K. Rowling
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The door of Godās mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners āCome.ā
Jonathan Edwards
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Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.
Swami Vivekananda
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God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
Simone Weil
20.
If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.
Rumi
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God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.
Thomas Brooks
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Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.
William Camden
27.
There is only one heart in my body, have mercy
on me.
Franz Wright
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I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
Joseph Stalin
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Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.
Eugene Kennedy
30.
If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.
Gerald R. Ford
32.
Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.
Pope John Paul II
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The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly [with your God]. This is enough.
John Adams
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Place your hopes in the mercy of God and the merits of our Redeemer; say often, looking at the crucifix: There are centered all my hopes.
Paul of the Cross
37.
I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone.
Pio of Pietrelcina
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Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when itās dark
Isaac Bashevis Singer
39.
Pardoning mercy makes way for healing mercy.
T. B. Joshua
40.
Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.
Jack Nicholson
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Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.
Charles Spurgeon
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I saw the abyss of my misery; whatever there is of good in me is Yours, O Lord. But because I am so small and wretched, I have a right to count on Your boundless mercy.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
Graham Greene
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God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.
Pope Francis
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My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.
Robert E. Lee
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I have not lost Allah's hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example.
Muhammad Ali
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Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
Thomas Aquinas
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
Jack London
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The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
Christian D. Larson
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The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live.
David A. Bednar