Harvey Fierstein

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

American Actor

George Bernard Shaw

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Irish Playwright

Arthur Henderson

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

British Politician

George Mason

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

American Statesman

Maya Angelou

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

American Poet

Laurence Sterne

In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

Irish Novelist

Anna Jameson

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

British Writer

Chilon

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

Greek Poet

Khalil Gibran

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Lebanese Poet

Jesus Christ

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Leader

Use 'merciful' to describe someone's actions that prevent further suffering of others.

Kindness in Action

'Merciful' can describe actions of institutions or entities, not just individual people.

Not Just for Humans

'Merciful' often carries a connotation of someone being in a position of power or moral high ground.

Moral Superiority

'Merciful' describes conditions or events that are less severe than expected.

Sparing Discomfort

Use 'merciful' to express gratitude when a negative situation is not as bad as it could be.

Expressing Relief

'Merciful' can also refer to an agent or action that alleviates pain or suffering, not just the pain itself.

Easing Pain

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 And then I just allow to come through my hand whatever, if you could imagine the most loving, compassionate, merciful voice in the world, if they were in the room with you, what would you want them to say? And you say that to yourself. And so for me, that usually is a combination of these sorts of

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 I was treated the same, the same was expected of me. I was never taught that God judged differently based on gender. And my parents' understanding of God as a merciful and beneficial friend and provider shaped the way I looked at the world.

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 and you don't have a sense of blackness at all. The Brookes map, which was an image that helped abolitionists see and be merciful for that condition of the crossing, is something that we want to repeat. And I was taken by the conceptuality

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 But again, I was one of the lucky ones. Ultimately, being a captive reminded me of a time when I was helpless and needed a voice. Now that I'm released, I have my voice back, and, mercifully, it puts me in a position where I can advocate

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 In that moment, Chip knew he was in deep ship. I had no idea what he was talking about. I just sat there awkwardly, and mercifully, he moved on to someone else. I slid down in my chair, and I couldn't wait for that meeting to end.

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 do so socio-politically according to a Quranic verse Salam peace is the word of the old merciful God Rahim in turn the word Rahim which is known in all the brahmic traditions has the same root in

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 and only if they attack you first. And even then -- God is merciful; forgiveness is supreme -- and so, essentially, better if you don't.

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 What can you do? What can you do? What can we do? How might we build a more merciful country? We, the greatest inventors in the world,