Here's to unexpected, undeserved mercy and grace... ..AMAZING GRACE how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me".
Practice acts of unexpected kindness and mercy; ask for and expect no reward.
We start their journey, in other words, where they disembark -- which suggests an implacable resistance to sentimentality even as it grants an unexpected sort of mercy.
Although my memory of Victor Hugo's book has faded over the years, I don't recall any account that has linked Javert's suicide with these useless and unnecessary deaths, in addition to the inspector's confusion at Jean Valjean's unexpected act of mercy.
No wonder the Bible reminds us to love the unlovable, to defy social conventions and cultural expectations through exuberant and unexpected demonstrations of mercy.
Guest producers Basement Jaxx take the prize for 'Shake It', but some of the finest tunes here are the unexpected New Wave numbers, like 'Mercy'.
It is the real world, in all in its vicious and unforgiving glory, perpetually at the mercy of a hundred unexpected environmental factors.
Regardless of what some charities spend on self-preservation, we sometimes only realize the value of their work when we are forced into a state of an unexpected and desperate need at the mercy of a natural disaster.
It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindnesses and mercies to emerge like kings and queens in an unexpected twist in the game.
Or will there be another unexpected turn in this complex cautionary tale — one that veers toward mercy and the kind of grace that exists outside of karma.
We may live in a world of the unexpected and undeterminable, where "there is no such thing as perfect intelligence," but we "are not at the mercy of fat tails," Bremmer and Keat tell us.
