Merciful Quotes

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

Courage, True, Cannot

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
Khalil Gibran

God, Heart, Close

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
Margaret Sanger

Family, Infant, Members

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft

Mind, Human, Inability

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nature, After, Present

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Eyes, Gentleman, Present

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
Cat Stevens

Best, Human, Fact

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
William Law

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas William Jerrold

Rain, Passion, Duck

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
George Mason

Life, Happiness, Wise

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?
John Clayton

Time, God, Death

I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.
Alex Campbell

Trust, God, Hope

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Anna Jameson

Experience, Question, Side

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
Louis Finkelstein

God, Children, Parent

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
Jose Bergaman

Forget, Dead, Perhaps

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
Mary Stewart

Pain, Sleep, Together

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.
Chilon

Respect, Fear, Strong

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.
Henry Newbolt

Strong, Proud, Courtesy

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