Sentence examples for merciful on from inspiring English sources

Henry is able to be merciful on this occasion, since he has now won the kingship, and thus gives to this scene an upbeat movement.

Outside one of the buildings in Ur, grieving mourners have already strung up a black banner honoring one of the families killed: "The people here went to God the Most Merciful on March 7, 2010".

May the gods be merciful on your journey through life and into hell.

Be merciful on the earth, The One who is in the heavens will be merciful to you".

Netanyahu's comments come a day after Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said that Israel has been too "merciful" on Palestinian stone-throwers so far and that police should use live ammunition to quell demonstrations, according to the Times of Israel.

In West Jordan, Utah, a spokesman for the Hassoun family, Tarek Nosseir, said Monday, "If he is still in captivity, we remind the captors of the saying of our beloved prophet: 'Be merciful to those on earth and mercy will descend upon you from heaven.' " In the airstrike on Falluja, the American military dropped the bombs in an eastern neighborhood, The A.P. reported.

When at last my turn came I was told simply to go away, for "Did I not know all children under the age of five must die?" The word he used to me was "frek", which in Afrikaans refers to the death of animals, not of human beings... Johan was received into God's merciful care on 29 April , 1901....

It is well known that Benedict wants to transform the Church of Rome, which is not to say that he wants to make it more responsive to the realities of modern life as it is lived by Catholic women in the West, or by Catholic homosexuals, or even by the millions of desperately poor Catholic families in the Third World who are still waiting for some merciful dispensation on the use of contraception.

The feeble hashtag-disguised-as-strategy Hail Mary came to an abrupt, merciful end on Tuesday.

Though there's a merciful lull on the approach to Station Road, site of both the robbery and a small cluster of pubs that I hope will house the sort of folk who remember both the events of May , 1958and Port Talbot's glory days, and might just be willing to talk about them.

In such a schema, the Holy Spirit's sole purpose is to enable totally wicked and hell-destined human beings to get out of the doghouse with the wrathful Father by responding appropriately to the action of the merciful Son on the cross.