Richard Charnley Leamington Spa When considering if Christianity is a civilising force we can only look at the teaching of its founder; teaching such as to turn the other cheek when hurt, love your neighbour as yourself, be merciful, forgive and help the poor.
While God is at work making those repairs, the rest of us can help by being merciful, nonjudgmental and kind".
I can't say what your story might be there but I know that I, as a Christian, and you, as a Muslim, believe God to be merciful... so I can't help but have hope for you... Dear Dzhokhar, you're a kid.
"He needs to dip into the merciful world of cosmetic products and avail himself of some kind of lip balm or gloss that helps mask the fact that he misplaced his lips somewhere.
The category of medical benefits does not, for Pellegrino, include items such as providing fertility controls (unless for the prevention and maintenance of health and bodily integrity), performing purely cosmetic surgery, or actively helping a patient to effect a merciful death by the active hastening of death.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
In the wake of the less merciful Katrina, Valero sent doctors to its New Orleans plant to help the injured.
This is a depiction of two of the merciful acts advocated in St Matthew's Gospel: give drink to the thirsty, help prisoners.
I imagine that if the universe is ruled by a loving and merciful God, then He — or She, who knows? — takes heart when I help a person on crutches over the curb.
Christians who viewed God as merciful, compassionate and caring were both more likely to value those same qualities in themselves and to see helping all others as a moral obligation.
