1055 examples of merciful in sentences

"Thou hast one comfort, friend," said I, "at least in the loss of the poor beast; I'm sure thou hast been a merciful master to him."

It is with no merciful intent that these signs of our Lord's suffering are thus exhibited.

At the present day, if a tradesman fails in business, he can appeal to a merciful bankruptcy law, which gives him every chance to satisfy his creditors and to start afresh; or in the case of a single debt, he can be put into a county court where every chance is given him to pay it within a reasonable time.

If he chose to be merciful he could go to the praetor, and get what was called a missio in bona, i.e. a legal right to take the whole of his debtor's property, waiving the right to his person.

But if the Professor should be so imprudent as to cite us to the slave code for evidence of its merciful provisions, he will, in so doing, authorize us to cite him to that code for evidence of the nature of slavery.

These laws were a merciful provision for the poorer classes, both of the Israelites and Strangers.

Loving and merciful, and tender-hearted, And even in fiercest wrath remembering mercy.

God is infinitely merciful; and his vicegerent is only not so, because he is not infinite.

"But smote upon his breast saying, God be merciful to me a sinner."

"That's me; that's my prayer," cried the poor creature, and smiting on his dark breast, he prayed for himself in the words of the parable,"God be merciful to me a sinner!"

And then for the first time in two days he prayedthis time the prayer of the publican: "God be merciful to me, a sinner.

When the paroxysm had passed, it left him, weak and prone, still faintly crying his prayer into the sand, "O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.

There, though not from the popular preachers, you will learn that God is just and true, loving and merciful, and no respecter of persons.

And, after all this, if anything can grieve him now, must it not grieve him to see men fancying that he is better than his Father is, more loving and merciful than his Father is, more worthy of our trust, and faith, and adoration, and gratitude than his Father is?

Ay, whenever we indulge ourselves in hard words and cruel judgments, the thought of God seems darkened to us there and then; the face of God seems turned from us; and peace of mind and brightness of spirit, and lightness of soul, do not come back to us, till we have confessed our sins, and have let the kindly, the charitable, the merciful thoughts rise up in us once more, as, by the grace of Christ, they will rise up.

Because, if they worshipped God, and kept his laws, they must needs have been more or less good men, upright, just, merciful, cleanly and chaste livers: while, on the other hand, they might worship their idols, and nevertheless be as bad as they chose.

'Grant, we beseech thee, merciful Lord, to thy faithful people pardon and peace; that they may be cleansed from all their sins, and serve thee with a quiet mind, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

And to that the Spirit answers, No; be reasonable and merciful.

But then the thought would comeWhy, after all, should God, if he be just and merciful, punish my sin by pain and misery?

Then God appears to him a gracious and merciful father.

He speaks reverently of masters and tutors, and does not curse even the proctors; he is merciful to his wine-bin, which is chiefly saw-dust, pays his bills, and owes nobody a guineahe is a Freshman!Monthly Magazine.

"It is a wonder God doesn't strike you dead; I never heard" "I don't believe there is a God," I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.

"Oh," replied the scrupulously polite Indian, "the young Sahib shot divinely, but God was very merciful to the birds."

May the Lord be merciful and take him off right now.

" May God be merciful and gracious to support you all on this deeply interesting occasion, is the earnest prayer of your affectionate old friend, E. B. RAMSAY.

1055 examples of  merciful  in sentences