Sentence examples for true mercy from inspiring English sources

"Cretins," for instance, or babies born with cerebral palsy: "Would not early freezing be a true mercy?" For the weak-minded, who might find making such a decision difficult, Ettinger offered a philosophical rule of thumb: Ask yourself, "If the child were already frozen, and it were within my power to return him to deformed life, would I do so?

Inspired by the pontiff's call for "true signs of mercy" in the Jubilee of Mercy, the Community of Sant'Egidio – a Catholic organisation that provides aid to the socially and economically disadvantaged – founded the "Pope Francis Laundrette".

A true act of mercy and compassion would have been to release Ronnie Biggs months ago.

Making love to his wife the night before the killing, "Tom used the murder he would commit the next day as a vehicle to bring his grief into the bed, and then he stripped the grief of its selfishness by reminding himself with all his strength that the woman beside him trusted him, and in this true sobriety came mercy and so he was tender".

There is no true justice unless mercy is part of it.

"[Abuse survivors] have become true heralds of mercy," Francis said on the last day of his United States visit, according to a transcript provided by CNN's Jake Tapper.

"Those who have survived this abuse have become true heralds of mercy -- humbly, we owe each of them our gratitude for their great value as they have had to suffer this terrible abuse sexual abuse of minors," he continued.

Gary Arnold of The Washington Post panned the film, criticizing its mood and tempo and describing Buckley as its only true asset: "Tender Mercies fails because of an apparent dimness of perception that frequently overcomes dramatists: they don't always know when they've got ahold of the wrong end of the story they want to tell".

Even so, I love saying: mercy is true".

The film will be an adaptation of the book True American: Murder & Mercy in Texas, by Anand Giridharadas, which documents the true story of Rais Bhuiyan, a Bangladeshi who moved to the US to work in the technology sector.

The Bible is full of condemnation for this vile practice; the prophets cried out that the true God wants compassion and mercy, not child sacrifice.