Nevertheless, right in the middle of the beatitudes, Jesus is saying that being merciful is blessed, that is, "commended by God," and that the merciful receive mercy.
Who knows what I actually asked—I only remember that he was merciful, gallant, kind.
When Pat died, we were thankful that God was merciful and she was released from the indignities of this debilitating disease.
New experiences take the place of old ones, new memories, better memories; and all the old selves become interred in a forgetfulness that is itself merciful.
When Christians pray, "Your will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven," the one prayer given to us by Jesus, it seems to me that this should obligate us to, as much as we can, make choices that are as merciful and loving as possible.
That was more merciful than some lawyers I spoke to had expected.
Applying this analogy to God, we can say that God is merciful to the extent that the order of nature (what God created) exhibits merciful characteristics and angry to the extent that it is harsh toward things that do not take proper care of themselves.
Indeed, they threaten to retaliate against our family, that their group will do us harm and punish us, so we ask that you are merciful to their people, and god willing, they will release us".
MEDIEVAL kings had a trick for persuading their people that they were merciful rather than tyrannical: lead a gang of criminals to a scaffold, but execute only half.
