Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, called him a "great man" whose inauguration speech displayed the bold and merciful spirit of Jesus.
I have spent whole days, sunrise to sunset, roiling around in my bed, rubbing my stomach, moaning, and begging a merciful spirit to end the nauseous agony consuming me.
He requests that Christians move away from their arrogance and aggression and Muslims to embody the compassionate and merciful spirit of Islam as exhibited in the bismillah, the Arabic phrase meaning "In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate".
Maybe the Lakers were feeling merciful.
Hell may not be wished away, in their view, but must be conquered by the merciful saviour who liberates the spirits from bondage, by the overpowering force of divine forgiveness, or by a final battle, the ultimate outcome of which, some hope, will be hell emptied, hell despoiled.
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.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
But when, after all protests, the angel returns with an apple from paradise inscribed with the basmalah (the invocation "In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate") or writes God's name in his palm, the spirit must leave.
Jesus amplified this in his Sermon on the Mount: blessed are the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, and those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake.
The eight "blessed" groups in Matthew are "the poor in spirit," "they that mourn," "the meek," "they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness," "the merciful," "the pure in heart," "the peacemakers," and "they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake" (King James Version).
