“We do not want to have mercy for the things God has under judgment. We do not want to fall in the ditch on the otherside of unsanctified mercy.”

“We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.”

“When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?”

“Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me — the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love — He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us — nature did it all — not the gods of the religions.[October 2, 1910, interview in the NY Times Magazine]”

“God is merciful to those who want to love Him and who have placed their hopes in Him.”

“We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.”