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I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.

I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.
– Ross Macdonald

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  2. One passion leads to another. It’s passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion. – Chloe Thurlow
  3. The main secret of his progress, the secret of all wisdom, was, that with him action was the beginning and end of thought. – George MacDonald
  4. A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes. – Eli Ashpence
  5. A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  6. When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words. – Swami Dhyan Giten
  7. when things are not happening the way you expect them to be know that something is happening the way God plan it for you – siphesihle manzini
  8. Meditation is not about what’s happening, it is about how we’re relating to what’s happening. – Sharon Salzberg
  9. It’s not happening to you, it’s happening through you. Check your thoughts and your energetic output for the answers. – Sanjo Jendayi
  10. Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening. – Steve Martin
  11. The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. – Ross Macdonald
  12. The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. – Ross Macdonald
  13. I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves. – Ross Macdonald
  14. Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own. – Ross Macdonald
  15. Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born. – Ross Macdonald
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  17. The apparent facts, if you like. I’m not a philosopher. We lawyers don’t deal in ultimate realities. Who knows what they are? We deal in appearances. – Ross Macdonald
  18. Flames entered the room like dancers, orange-colored and whirring. – Ross Macdonald
  19. Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. – Ray Cummings
  20. The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it’s up to us to make sense of it and give it value. – Sean Carroll
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  23. If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy. – Billy Graham
  24. Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? – Pierre Troubetzkoy
  25. Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. – Bryan Stevenson
  26. How kind you are, North Wind!”I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it. – George MacDonald
  27. Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren’t rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice. – Rick Warren
  28. This is what the LORD requires of every man; to do justice, to love mercy and to humbly work with God. – Lailah Gifty Akita
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  37. Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. – Richard Rahl – Terry Goodkind
  38. Thankfully, God has shown us that hope, in its million different forms, always springs from three primary colors: justice, mercy, and love. – Richard Dahlstrom
  39. Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,Beware the Fury of a Patient Man. – John Dryden
  40. Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty–these are Christian values. – Charles J Chaput

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