Sentence examples for towards mercy from inspiring English sources

Be aware that whilst Allah Ta'alaa is inclined towards mercy for those that sincerely repent from their sins, he can be severe in punishment for those that disobey Him.

I had to dispose of all tendencies I may have had towards sensitivity, mercy, sense, humility and Joni Mitchell and embrace the dull, dormant savage within.

We show mercy towards the merciless by abjuring torture and the death sentence.

While showing mercy towards women who have had abortions, divorced couples or gay Catholics is a huge improvement on condemning them as sinners, it still implies that they have been or are doing something wrong.

Constant ribbing about his private life was compromising Deayton's position as the show's "holier-than-thou" host, who showed no mercy towards politicians or celebrities caught in a similar position, the corporation added.

Before any words were written for the third act, we had to decide whether the tyrant would show mercy towards Zaide and Gomatz at the end of the opera.

There's still no sign of mercy towards Michael Buerk at Radio 4, despite official claims that he provided "plenty of notice" of his antipodean cash-in (notice seemingly not relayed to Radio Times, which still lists him as presenting this Wednesday's edition of The Moral Maze, almost a fortnight after he decamped).

The border war of 1962 can be seen as Mao's riposte to Nehru's act of mercy towards Tibet, and the fact that the issues left dangling at the end of the conflict are unresolved more than half a century later gives a good sense of how limited, to date, has been the fraternal co-operation between the giant neighbours.

There's no longer the slightest doubt of it;" and began to sign herself with the Cross in prayer for the dead, but, sharply remembering we do not know, and feeling as if she had been on the verge of exercising malign power against turn, deflected the intention of the gesture towards God's mercy upon him, in whatsoever condition he might now be.

Now justice to the outcast is less vast … than mercy towards the elect".

The Australian government has urged Indonesia to show mercy towards two citizens facing execution on drug smuggling charges.