#merciful

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

— Khalil Gibran

#god #heart #just #merciful #people

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. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#anarchy #civilization #clear #cost #four

I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#before #eternal #feel #god #going

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#duck #held #his #man #merciful

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

— Chilon

#merciful #neighbors #respect #strong #would

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue. ↗

— William Law

#frailties #god #goodness #his #improvements

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#bashful #distant #eyes #gentle #gentleman

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#correlate #human #human mind #inability #merciful

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. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#experience #generous #hundred #just #me

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#challenge #countries #drama #economic #emerged