Severe Mercy Quotes

#1. That death, so full of suffering for us both, suffering that still overwhelmed my life, was yet a severe mercy. A mercy as severe as death, a severity as merciful as love.

Sheldon Vanauken

#2. There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. If you separate from ... everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future ... and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

Marcus Aurelius

#4. Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

Drew Barrymore

#5. It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity ... Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

Saint John Chrysostom

#6. I have a pretty good ear.

Miranda Lambert

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

William Tecumseh Sherman

#8. How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

Bob Gill

#9. There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. God says that we can learn a great deal about Him just by observing nature. Because He has spoken through His universe, all men are without excuse for not believing in Him. This is why the Psalmist said: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" [Psalm 14:1 KJV].

Billy Graham

#11. Now I'm no expert, but I don't think you need to thank someone for loving you. You just need to ... I don't know ... appreciate it, I guess.

Belle Aurora

#12. And all the ministers of the various types of local Baptists had declined to participate in retribution for Monroe's failure to believe in a God with severe limitations on His patience and mercy.

Charles Frazier

#13. Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

Mercy Otis Warren

#14. People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

John Doerr

#15. On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

Mercy Otis Warren

#16. She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

Kate Forsyth

#17. All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#18. Players are ready to play, We're not on strike. It's a lockout.

Dwyane Wade

#19. I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.

David Levithan

#20. We just need to figure out how to navigate the rest of the world, and we'll either sink or swim. I'm a really good swimmer. The question is, how long can you hold your breath?

Melissa Foster