Many thoughtful people, including some governors and ex-governors, question very seriously the wisdom of this absolute assignment of the pardoning power.
The question of how best to regulate the pardoning power is still unsettled.
And in 1867 President Johnson continued to grant such amnesty, denying the power of congress to put any limitation upon the president's pardoning power.
Bear hence this body, and attend our will: Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
Pittie shall dwell and gouerne with vs still: Mercie to all but murdrers, pardoning none that kill.
With shame I shall remember your majesty's goodness in pardoning my ungracious behavior to-day" replied the archduke, fervently pressing his mother's hands to his lips.
James was sensible, that the pardoning of so great a criminal, which was of itself invidious, would become still more unpopular, if his obstinate and stubborn behavior on his trial should augment the public hatred against him.
The King promises Don Diego that he will create Don Juan Count of Lebrija, and bestow Isabella upon him, at the same time pardoning the Marquis at Donna Anna's request, and uniting the two in marriage.
The music renders so bewitchingly the impression of her pardoning gentleness and amiability that we are forced to believe in the sincerity of the reconciliation, and to share in the rejoicings which follow on so many troublous events.
If this dogma be true, then God will never release a soul from hell--the pardoning power will never be exercised.
The next question is whether Christianity has deprived God of thepardoning power.
My spirit thirsts to prove Renew'd supplies of pardoning grace, And never-fading love.
I acknowledged the Lord's mercy in pardoning what was past, but depended chiefly upon my own resolution to do better for the time to come.
Thy pardoning voice, O let me hear, To still each unbelieving fear, Nor let me fall, I pray.
Either of these courses should be regarded by Edwards as equally securing the vindication of the majesty and justice of God in pardoning sin.
Beare hence his body, and attend our will: Mercy not Murders, pardoning those that kill.
The pardoning power, too, must be exercised with the utmost reserve and circumspection.
His mercy pardoning poor sinners, justice being satisfied, cannot be cleared by nature.
As they felt the witness of pardoning grace, they longed to behold Him whom their souls loved.
His pardoninglove rushes out to welcome the penitent.
It is by coming under obligation to Him that they know the pardoning love of the Father, as well as everything else that enters into Christian experience and constitutes the blessedness of life in the Kingdom of God.
It was intimated by the learned District Attorney, in his opening remarks, that in the event of a conviction, the President would exercise the pardoning prerogative.
The voice that had been arrested in cowardly curses by the look of divine pardoning love, had a tone in it the Archangel Michael's could never have!
Then will I teach the world thy ways; Sinners shall learn thy sovereign grace; I'll lead them to my Saviour's blood, And they shall praise a pardoning God.
Behold, on flying clouds he comes, And every eye shall see him move; Though with our sins we pierced him once, Now he displays his pardoning love.
When our days on earth are ended, And we rise to worlds above, Then our songs shall all be blended In one song of pardoning love!
Come, sinners, haste, O haste away, While yet a pardoning God is found.
A fountain is opened; how canst thou refuse To wash and be cleansed in his pardoning blood?
If once I wander from thy path, I think upon my ways; Then turn my feet to thy commands, And trust thy pardoning grace.
My crimes, though great, can not surpass The power and glory of thy grace; Great God, thy nature hath no bound; So let thy pardoning love be found.
Faith must obey our Father's will, As well as trust his grace; A pardoning God requires us still To walk in all his ways.
Sweet was the time when first I felt The Saviour's pardoning blood Applied to cleanse my soul from guilt, And bring me home to God.
O Lord, and will thy pardoning love, 383 O Lord, another day is flown, H.
O Lord, and will thy pardoninglove Embrace a wretch so vile?
The whole matter relates topardoning or not pardoning an injury.
Public policy and the ends of justice require that the punishment for a criminal offence should, in every case, be exclusively subject to the supreme pardoning power, without dependence upon the will of any private person.
A case has occurred in Kentucky, to which reference has been already made, in which it is confidently and broadly assumed that the pardoning power under the Constitution extends even to the penalties due to informers.
Under the Constitution of the United States, and according to its true spirit, the pardoning power of the President is coextensive with the power to punish, except in the solitary case of impeachment.
Let us look our past evils full in the face, that we may learn to hate them, and that we may learn more the width and the sweep of the power of His pardoning mercy.
For how can his sin be pardoned, unless it is clearly understood by the pardoning power?
Nay, why is it that he finds it impossible fully to believe that Jehovah is a sin-pardoning God, unless he is enabled so to do by the Holy Ghost?
It is because he knows that God is under a necessity of punishing his sin, but is under no necessity of pardoning it.
Here upon earth, there is no wickedness that surpasses the pardoning love of God in Christ.
Speak thy pardoning grace to me, Set the burdened sinner free; Lead me to the Lamb of God, Wash me in his precious blood.
A fountain is opened,--how canst thou refuse To wash, and be cleansed in his pardoning blood?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pardoning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
