Mercies Quotes

"I wanted to be a jockey when I was growing up. But I grew too tall. I grew to be six-one. It was devastating. Somehow acting came up, and that became my obsession. When that devastation happened with the jockey business I thought, `Okay, I don`t want to be the kind of actor who does just one thing.` So I thought, `I`ve got to get rid of my Texas accent.` I saw an ad in the back of Life magazine for John Gielgud doing Shakespeare - `The Ages of Man`. It came on a record, so I sent away for that. I listened to it until I completely exorcised my Texas accent. I moved to New York, and I got `Tender Mercies` and I had to get a Texas accent! I had to play a good ol` boy! So I called my brother. I would just talk to him!"

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God`s ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.