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Sentence Examples Having a majority of eleven against him, the wise juryman consented to a merciful verdict of death by misadventure. In merciful contrast tender tales of sun-drenched small town reverie restore some hope. It is, to say the least, difficult to understand how it is possible to be loving and merciful to people one is trying to kill. He spun a hypospray in one hand, then pressed it to Bracks' neck, sending him into merciful unconsciousness. Supporters have described Mary as one of the most merciful of the Tudor sovereigns. I think that in turn we should be merciful to those who sin against us, without our mercy leading us to neglect our responsibilities to others. The quick end to the war brought the angle to a merciful conclusion and McMahon shifted his nimble mind to the pursuit of other angles. When a disabled child dies some people think it is a merciful release but it was the beginning of a nightmare for us. Experiencing his mercy should humble us, fill us with gratitude, and move us to be merciful toward those around us. So we let the brief conversation come to a merciful end and they started to walk away. It may be that the gods are merciful when they make our lives more unpleasant as we grow old. There is no shelter for them to find merciful relief from their vilification. O my merciful Lord Chaitanya, may the nectarean Ganges waters of Your transcendental activities flow on the surface of my desert-like tongue. I seek refuge in Allah, the most kind and most merciful, from Shaitan the outcast. For a while there, it didn't seem like it was ever going to happen but 1998 has finally come to a merciful end. Bombing would have been, it was believed, a merciful end to those who suffered unimaginable horrors there. The most the Old Testament writers hope for is a ripe old age ended by a quick and merciful death. It's also a taste of things to come, a reward for the patient, and a merciful release for the tortured. It was perhaps merciful release for Wright-Phillips when his number was held up by the fourth official. Ariadne poses against a rocky outcrop and raises her hand in a rhetorical gesture that makes her seem irate and merciful, proud and humble. Show More Sentences I'm happy and glad to see that God is merciful and generous towards all people, whether they are religious or not. His death was undoubtedly merciful, but he left a sad gap among his dwindling circle of friends. His teachings included temperance, being thankful to the Creator, merciful to children and the poor, and the evil of greed and pride. To Rich, his brother suddenly appeared as some benign leader, the merciful father taking his excitable daughters on holiday. Though it was a numb, lack-of-all sensation that laid claim to his body, it was far more merciful than the excruciation of the previous weeks. It is as though, having assumed the air of some merciful spirit on earth, they were in reality mere satanic emissaries in disguise. Confused he walked back to dying chief, he was calling out for a merciful death. The next time you get a rejection slip, try to think of it as a merciful release. The first sequence spoke to me of how merciful God is for absolving my transgressions. One part of me agrees, yes that in a completely hopeless case, ravaged by pain, this might be the merciful thing to do. Captain America has just been asked if he wants to surrender and receive a quick and merciful death. The overwhelming consensus is that the lack of knowledge is probably the merciful way it should be. It's a merciful release from reliance on parents, one's own way to the movies or a friend's house. They instilled fear into every ship that crossed their waters, though they often were merciful to those who surrendered. The difficult task is to find ways of being merciful to the guilty without being cruel to the innocent. The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the Government? So the generous, merciful boys in blue gave him his own space. He did not want to see her suffer, and, thinking that it would be more merciful to make an end of her, he went into the kitchen to fetch his skinning knife. The physician does not go to excess, but is wise and merciful, irradiating confidence, and regulating a balanced life style. We also beseech You for all heretics and sinners that they become converted, and be gracious and merciful to the souls of the deceased. Show More Sentences For the traditional theology, God wishes to manifest His merciful love precisely by atoning for sinners. The result is an encounter between his human weakness andthe Father's merciful love. But, in spite of our unworthiness, our loving and merciful God, found a way to give us hope and favor. Acceptance of his littleness provides Abraham with the courage to haggle with a God he knows to be merciful. Instead of praising the act of killing Saul as merciful and kind, David calls for the man to be executed because of his not being afraid to destroy the Lord's anointed. Your simple words have prompted my merciful Heart to a boundless commiseration. I tell you also, do not fear illnesses, and be patient and merciful with all. Blind Westerners have but to listen to their Hosannas to the all merciful and irascible God, to their Allah Akbar-Allah Akbar hollering. God, who is eternal, is thus the most magnanimous, and so, he is also most merciful and compassionate, seeing to the depths of humanity's needs. William did not believe in being merciful to those who fought against him. At least he would be more merciful to them and give them a quick end. The Virgin Mary could be tolerated for her merciful, loving, consolatory virtues if only one didn't at the same time have to buy into her passivity and sexual repressiveness. The expression on the goddess' face was merciful and compassionate. Is this the action of a merciful and compassionate loving deity? Be merciful to the other creations so the Creator will have mercy on you. Perhaps, in the light of her illness, it was a merciful release. It does so by bringing the penitent into contact with the merciful heart of God through the friendly face of a brother. Similarly, God must be just, self-existent, invulnerable to suffering, merciful, timelessly eternal, non-physical, non-composite, and so forth. As a result, he enabled those who were with him to be merciful, to purify their desires, change their lives, and live in family-style intimacy. If, before judging, you looked closely at yourselves and your defects, I assure you your judgment would be more merciful. Show More Sentences It was only a matter of forming the conscience of the faithful and of being merciful when failings occurred. If he is from a farm he remembers the merciful way a gravely injured animal is put down. Let us throw ourselves into his arms and be regenerated by his merciful love. This God is the most compassionate, the most beneficent, and most merciful. If you do what is right and guard yourselves against evil, you will find God forgiving and merciful. Yes, confessors must be merciful and full of empathy with these people, but their job doesn't stop there! Blessed are you, my sisters, when you are merciful to the oppressed. Instead of compelling the patient to lead the terrible life of an invalid, the doctor should have let the patient die a merciful death, the media argued. After reading about 40 pages, she fell into a merciful, dreamless sleep. With the unfairness of it all, the final whistle was a merciful relief. After the merciful demise of her husband in 1842 her activities became less camouflaged and in the 1850s she was involving herself in the serf problem. Rosina, when she saw me cooling, had no such merciful contraption ready. But we invite those who come to us to go beyond, to heal old wounds and mend broken relationships from the past, to learn how to forgive, to welcome the action and grace of a merciful God in their lives. In order to realize affective relationships that are lasting and harmonious, it is necessary that the person have a realistic and merciful glance in dealing with self and others. It removed the offender from society, possibly permanently, but was seen as a more merciful or forgiving punishment than execution. He's very legalistic, so let's hope the law is just and merciful as well as strict. We would tend to see Cagular's pledge of allegiance and service to Cyrus as nothing more than a reasonable and expected obligation in exchange for the Kings merciful pardon. Talk of sin can never be divorced from God's infinite and merciful love. Manitou was a loving and merciful god to us. I learned about our Heaven, known as the 'happy hunting ground' where everyone goes whether you are good or bad. He is, in fact, the true poor in spirit, the one afflicted, the meek one, the one hungering and thirsting for justice, the merciful, the pure of heart, the peacemaker. Show More Sentences Be merciful, great Sultan If not now, when? Look kindly upon our churches whom you call to join together in reflecting in everyday life the merciful and kindly love of your son Jesus Christ, God with us for ever and ever. As noted above, it is unusual for the UK financial sector to be so merciful and short-termist: business as usual will no doubt be resumed before too long. A 7th consecutive season without playoffs, a second consecutive one that was spirit crushingly bad comes to a merciful end and it's just a question of 17th or 18th place. A taciturn yet merciful mechanic repairs them with a tube of epoxy glue. Now hath come unto you a Messenger from amongst yourselves: it grieves him that ye should suffer, ardently anxious is he over you: to the Believers is he most kind and merciful. And then, the monastery becomes a school of prayer, as it were, whose extern students learn to trust God, Who hears our every sigh, Who is good and merciful. Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors and take upon myself the more difficult and toilsome tasks. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Why is Putin feeling so merciful all of a sudden to his political enemies? All Muslims assert that God is most merciful, most compassionate. With them, I will make you poor in spirit and possessions, meek, peaceful, merciful, able to cry over your sins, to hunger and thirst for justice and, especially, to have a clean heart. In her fourteenth revelation, Julian writes of the Trinity in domestic terms, comparing Jesus to a mother who is wise, loving and merciful. The Quran and the hadith describe God as being kind and merciful to His creatures, and tell people to be kind likewise. How long their servitude may be necessary is known and ordered by a merciful Providence. Terry Senate and Casey Rigney are both rumored to be headed to that merciful mother lode of skate sponsorship at Cirque du Soleil's Grand Chapiteau. The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence. Examples from Classical Literature Nay, not whooty freed, for crime lies in intent, and is not washed away because a merciful fate baffles its committal and its commission. God will bless them, not because they have earned a reward, but because He is merciful and gracious. The merciful veil was torn from his imagination, his soul gaped to the knowledge of death and of direr things that precede death. When thou doest acts of injustice thou becomest the second of these three, and if these be merciful thou also mayest be merciful. I am Assur'd you are more merciful, Than thus to beat me and discharge me too. The babus make beautiful accountants, and if we could only see it, a merciful Providence has made the Babu for figures and detail. If He is merciful at all He cannot be merciful only spasmodically, erratically, or temporarily. I am not wise in horseflesh, but at least I try to be merciful to my beasts. He is so honourably merciful to women in surprisal, that only that makes him an excellent courtier. Then, orlo, would you not wish to please so merciful and kind a Master, who has done so much for you? A few might, perhaps, have been merciful, but they were overborne by numbers. Yes, I was saved, and by the merciful instinct of ingratitude which nature had planted in the breast of that treacherous beast. He was merciful only when you paid for His mercy in advance. She will put her hands together and pray you to be merciful. Forrester hoped that the Godhead was feeling in a kind and merciful mood. His death was regarded by the slaves as the result of a merciful providence. A life of crime had steeled her soul against every merciful impression. A most merciful man, as ready to forgive as unapt to take or give offence. But they continued to call us by name and appeal to us, for God's sake, to be merciful and not leave them to die in such a place. Caiaphas was a merciful mankind, gentle, and with a very loving heart. Show More Sentences Bleddyn of Powys, a good and merciful prince, became the most important. To disobedient ones I can assure you that we are not half so merciful. Be merciful, fair sir, and essay no further in this perilous matter, lest disaster follow. It is a man's pisiness to pe pure, honest, just, and merciful. It is the way of the Alps to deliver death to their victims with a merciful swiftness, but here the rule failed. There is one in particular lately adopted in one of the States of the Union, which purports to have been dictated by the most merciful considerations. We were all disposed to wonder, but it seems to have been the merciful appointment of Providence that the heart which knew no guile should not suffer. There was no merciful alternative but to answer it on the spot. It is true, there were some soft and merciful passages occasionally, but the tramp-tramp of the tourists only allowed one to get fitful glimpses of them, so to speak. The ship has been stauncher, the skies more merciful, the seas less angry, or perhaps the men on board of a finer temper than he has been willing to take for granted. As His disciple I adopt His pure, His merciful, His benignant doctrines. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of merciful? Words that rhyme with merciful What is the adverb for merciful? What is the adjective for merciful? What is the noun for merciful? Translations for merciful Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words mercies Mercier Mercian Mercia merci merchet mercifully mercifulness merciless mercilessly mercilessness Merckx 8-letter Words Starting With m me mer merc merci mercif mercifu