mercifulness

Example Sentences

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But there was no compassion, no mercifulness in their faces as they looked down at her.

From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

Our mercifulness, then, is a reflection from His.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

But the humility and lowliness of heart, the mercifulness and peace-seeking which Christ inculcated were essentially powers of self-restraint, not negative but positive attitudes to life.

From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Alexander, Archibald B. C.

In this also I saw His great mercifulness in that He suffers such a sinner as I am still to live.

From Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings by Whyte, Alexander

The animal is excused; but in man there is reason, the faculty of justice, the faculty of mercifulness.

From Foundations of World Unity by `Abdu'l-Bahá