#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

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. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beginning #beyond #boats #broken #burned

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#genius #i #intervened #laughter #like

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. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#be kind #born #cannot #consistency #courage

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

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

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. ↗

— Venerable Bede

#attain #before #day #delight #drink

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#despair #every #god #merciful #much