Definition of Merciful

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Definition of Merciful
	Merciful Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. Unwilling to give pain; compassionate. Related Definitions: And, Compassionate, Disposed, Exercising, Full, Give, Having, Mercy, Of, Or, Pain, Pity, Punish, Spare, To, Unwilling

Merciful Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Merciful Translations

merciful in German is barmherzig
merciful in Hungarian is irgalmas, kegyelmes
merciful in Spanish is misericordioso

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