Sentence examples for merciful love from inspiring English sources
"The countries of provenance express the universality of the church, which continues to announce the merciful love of God to all men on Earth," he added.
"To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him forever by our own free choice," the catechism says.
Repeatedly, he argued that the Church's purpose was more to proclaim God's merciful love for all people than to condemn sinners for having fallen short of strictures, especially those having to do with gender and sexual orientation.
The biblical authors look upon the national fortunes of Israel as revelations of God's merciful love, his fidelity to his promises, his unfailing power, his exacting justice, and his readiness to forgive the penitent sinner.
With three encyclicals, three major books, more than a thousand addresses and more than 20 international trips over the last seven years, he has tirelessly preached the good news of God's merciful love to all who have ears to hear, challenging us to embrace that love with all of its demands, and to witness it with our lives.
How could a teaching inspired by God's merciful love provoke scores of children to be abused and abandoned?
Is he merciful, just, loving, vengeful, jealous?
Pope Francis did not call this synod to change teaching, but to expand it to include the missing part: the "missionary" and "pastoral" dimension – the merciful, healing, loving, welcoming part of Catholicism, which those outside the faith don't get to see.
He was the first and is Ever-Lasting, entirely Self-Sufficient, All-Knowing, the Most Merciful, the Loving, yet also the Just.
So, if our lives are a gift given by God and "re-gifted" by us to God, perhaps we can resolve to make these gifts the very best they can be: holy, healthy, hopeful, happy, whole, merciful, faithful, dedicated, loved and loving, forgiven and forgiving, comforted and comforting, given and received.
Let us join their cries of "Allaho Akbar" and let it be a plea to the merciful God we love and a repudiation of the vengeful God the Islamic regime is touting.
