Quotes about Pity
As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...
- John Updike
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
- Mark Twain
Yes, with a feeling of pity and sympathy the godless are to be destroyed or struck down by us as we remember that we are the instrument of God and are ourselves perhaps to be cast as a whip into the fire after we have blasted the evildoers.
- Martin Luther
When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
- Exodus 2:6
you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.
- Deuteronomy 13:8
You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.
- Deuteronomy 19:13
a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
- Deuteronomy 28:50
Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
- Judges 2:18
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
- Job 19:21
For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
- Psalm 102:14
Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.
- Isaiah 13:18
Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?
- Jeremiah 15:5