Sentence examples for work of mercy from inspiring English sources

Bush's speechwriter, Michael Gerson, himself an evangelical, laces the President's addresses with seemingly innocuous terms that the devout recognize as laden with meaning: "whirlwind," "work of mercy," "safely home," "wonder-working power".

"This is a corporal work of mercy".

Throwing a meet-the-candidate party is akin to a corporal work of mercy.

And now — 40 years after I walked down the aisle clutching my diploma — I returned to fulfill a final work of mercy: to bury the dead.

He also alluded to Catholic theology when he described fighting AIDS in Africa as "a work of mercy" -- a reference to the "seven corporal works of mercy".

He called it a "work of mercy," offering the soft power of American humanitarianism to counterbalance the imminent use of military force.

"After five years of working on 'Mercy of a Rude Stream,' I felt I had done all I could with Roth," Mr. Weil said.

He prefers imitating Ed Sullivan to memorizing the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

Through word and deed they taught us the works of mercy: to feed the poor, clothe the naked and educate the ignorant.

So we feel like parents who have been in the presence of angels dressed in nurses' uniforms, performing the most amazing works of mercy and care.

"Jeb knows, as I do, that your works of mercy are making our society more compassionate, changing the lives of millions of citizens," Mr. Bush said.