For these and all their mercies certainly they should have been truly thankful.
From time to time there came into our midst Vera Marcel, the Red Virgin of the barricades, the heroine of the Commune of Paris--a woman of blood and smoke and of infinite mercies towards men and beasts.
At the village gates, through which the blacks poured in panic, Korak left them to the tender mercies of his allies and turned himself eagerly toward the hut in which Meriem had been a prisoner.
That is so, Outram, but whether we showed good judgment in trusting our lives to her tender mercies is quite another matter.
Better trust to chance in the jungle, than be left to the tender mercies of these men.
That was no reason why those chicory-brown rascals should cause me to be pitched into the river to the tendermercies of the crocodiles, who, I believe, shed tears because they couldn't catch me.
He is but a tenant at will, or a dependent upon the tender mercies of soulless corporations and of absentee landlords.
Under the tender mercies of most of these, the unfortunate Cashmeeries appear to have fared but badly.
I confess, however, that it was with some apprehension that he set his foot in the stirrup, and trusted his person to the mercies of an unfamiliar animal.
They began to stamp their offspring with exhortatory sentences, pious ejaculations, brief professions of godly sorrow for sin, or exclamations of praise for mercies received.
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May the Great Spirit who dwells beyond the clouds, shower merciesupon you both, equal to the wrongs which your people have visited upon ours.
Instead of soaring upwards on the wings supplied by the glories of creation and the mercies of redemption, they will sink downwards into the mire.
These pour mercies upon men; and others, little less in honour, By cheerful wit and graphic tale refreshening the harassed spirit.
And though he often sin, he returneth with weeping eyes: For he feeleth the mercies of forgiveness, and gloweth with warmer gratitude.
Solitude bringeth woe to the wicked, for his crimes are told out in his ear; But addeth peace to the good, for the merciesof his God are numbered.
But thanks to the mercies of Him who is alone able to save, the valley and shadow of death were stripped of their terrors, and the descent to the grave was smoothed before me.
Relying on the mercies and infinite merits of the Saviour, had it pleased God to call me then, I believe I should have died in a peaceful, humble confidence.
I see In all things acting for our good, Howe'er thy mercies be misunderstood.
He then observed that it confirmed his opinion, that parents ought to instruct their own children, and never commit them to the mercies of a public school until they were perfectly grounded in the practice of virtue and piety.
I knew not that I was quarrelling with the most choice of God's mercies to me, without which I should probably have been irrevocably lost.
Then shall the Lord’s people derive joy and peace from those transporting words of comfort: “For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Our repast was cheerful, but tempered and corrected by a feeling of past sorrow, and a deep sense of great mercies from Heaven.
These were only a small part of the mercies I had received; but they were the most recent, and consequently had left the deepest impression on my memory.
Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.
Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful works to the children of men.
And in the time of their tribulation they cried to thee, and thou heardest from heaven, and according to the multitude of thy tender mercies thou gavest them saviours, to save them from the hands of their enemies.
And according to the multitude of thy tender merciesblot out my iniquity.
And I will shew mercies to you, and will take pity on you, and will cause you to dwell in your own land.
For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.
And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his merciesare many) than into the hands of men.
Deuteronomy Chapter 30 Great mercies are promised to the penitent: God's commandment is feasible.
A prayer of a sinner, trusting in the mercies of God.
Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful works to the children of men.
And David said to Gad: I am on every side in a great strait: but it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men.
The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.
Yet in thy very many mercies thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them: because thou art a merciful and gracious God.
Let thy tender merciescome unto me, and I shall live: for thy law is my meditation.
He holds out the merciesof His hands and the gifts of His grace, and we can reject them.
He condescends to run the molten gold of His mercies into the moulds which our faith prepares.
But since it hath pleased the mercies of God to reveal unto the unthankful world the light of His Word, and the right use and administration of His Sacraments, he essays man upon the contrary part.
There is none to set beside Thee" is far loftier and more accordant with the tone of the verse than the comparatively flat and incongruous remark that God's mercies cannot be told to Him (A.
These terms carry an indictment, recalling the lavish mercies so unworthily requited, and the solemn obligations so unthankfully broken.
The scheme of this little psalm will then be an introductory verse, followed by two parallel pairs of verses, each consisting of petition and its grounding in past mercies (vv.
If God's mercies thus baffle enumeration and beggar praise, the question naturally rises, "What shall I render to the Lord for all His benefits?
It is ever a joy to the heart swelling with the sense of God's mercies to be aware of the many who share the mercies and gratitude.
The merciesreceived are incomplete; and His work must be perfect.
The instinct of hearts touched by God's mercies is to speak of them to others.
The sky stretches beyond them, and the true numberlessness of God's mercies outdoes the great yet really limited range of apparently numberless sins or sorrows, the consequences of sin.
Just because he has ears to hear, it is clear that God wishes him to hear, and therefore that outward acts of worship cannot be the acknowledgment of mercies in which God delights.
Happy indeed are they who can translate their own experience into these two truths for all men: that trust is blessedness and that God's mercies are one long sequence, made up of numberless constituent parts.
When his voice broke, and his singing was of no further value, he was thrown upon the tender mercies of the world.
Since not only judgments have their awards, but mercies their commissions, snatch not at every favour, nor think thyself passed by if they fall upon thy neighbour.
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mercies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
