| Conversation is an encounter of metanoia, or it is not a conversation, not in the true sense of the word. |
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| Recovery requires many moments of metanoia as we bring forth a new worldview and heightened consciousness. |
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| We shall have to earn absolution with a complete metanoia over a long period of time. |
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| The biblical word for conversion, metanoia, means not just a shift in one's views or opinions but a fundamental change in direction. |
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| It expresses itself in a continuing metanoia and in the acceptance of redemptive suffering. |
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| The Greek metanoia is a widely honored biblical way to speak of conversion, but metamorphe constitutes a more profound change that has eschatological significance. |
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| This was perhaps a precursor for theastounding metanoia and reconciliation which South Africa was to undergo. |
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| The Greek word in rhetoric for this trick of calling attention to a phrase is metanoia, but the vice president is not listening to me. |
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| The Spirit is asking us to surrender our own personal agendas as he calls us once more to metanoia and to mission. |
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| This is the reason it is a place of metanoia, of turning around. |
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| This we celebrate in baptism, by the metanoia ritualized in our renunciations and affirmations, our promises, and our commitment to the church's faith. |
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| We are at a new level of consciousness brought about by a series of spiritual awakenings, moments of metanoia, and painful, profound, and penetrating personal insights. |
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| Experiences like this are not easily dismissed by those who have been through them, and they may sometimes lead to a conversion or metanoia, a change of mind, that alters the direction and orientation of a life. |
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| We can call it a path of penance, but I prefer to call it a time of reorientation, of metanoia. |
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| He is an implacable herald, urging on to renewal, to tthe teshuva, to what in Gospel terms is called metanoia, that renewal which concerns not just the individual but the collectivity. |
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| Since then, many of us have looked for signs of metanoia. |
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| Contemplating the beauty and presence of God in all things can lead us to metanoia, a conversion that moves us to respond to the crisis faced by our planet, our home, God's creation. |
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| Such contemplation could lead us to metanoia, conversion of heart, which is a good place for all of us to begin to respond to the crisis which our planet, our home, God's creation, faces in the beginning of a new millennium. |
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| He uses the theological concept of metanoia to frame an explanation of how clergy purported to change minds in order to prepare the audience for action. |
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