The tradition is that whenever a sinful and distressed worshipper stretches forth the hand of repentance with hopes of acceptance to the court of heaven, God the most high does not notice him, whereon he continues to implore mercy with supplications and tears and God the most holy says: O my angels, verily I am ashamed of my servant and he has no other lord besides myself.
She looked at me, put her hands atop each other on my cold knee, and smiled a sweet, tired, imploring, mercy-hoping smile.
We marvel over the painstaking beauty of Lucretia's bejewelled robe and the lifelike shadows playing over her open left hand, which seems pathetically to implore divine mercy, and the delicacy of her upper chest, which a flashing blade will presently penetrate.
"There is still time to change, there is still a way out and a chance, time to implore the mercy of God".
We implore his captors to show mercy and use their power to let our son go".
It's amusing to note that were the play to be set in the present day, Mary Jo might not need to implore God for the financial mercy of a gusher in the backyard.
In a videotaped statement, Ed Kassig, a school teacher and his wife Paula Kassig, a nurse who works with refugees, implored the Islamic State to "show mercy" and let their son go.
"Had we come across a graveyard," he says at one point, "we would have stopped, prostrated ourselves... and implored the dead to intercede for mercy on our behalf".
Pope Benedict also asked the clergy that this Lent be set aside as a time for imploring an outpouring of God's mercy and the Holy Spirit's gifts of holiness and strength upon the Church in Ireland.
Then with his last words the condemned man finally confessed to murdering the uneducated maid, saying, "The only words she said after I shot were, 'Lord have mercy on me.' " DeGraff implored his listeners to stay away from whiskey, bad women and dice.
We implore those who are holding you to show mercy and use their power to let you go".
