Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves - our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.