I hate all death represents, our fallenness, weakness, sinfulness, corruptness etc. |
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These words directly acknowledge the reality of systemic evil and individual sinfulness. |
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The journey from Epiphany to Lent brings us from the brightness of our dawning to the bleakness of our sinfulness. |
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We try to compensate for our natural sinfulness by performing good works of various kinds. |
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It seems to me that each act of sinning incrementally dulls the ability of an individual to see the sinfulness of the act. |
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During this time he allows Jesus to soak up all of his sinfulness and depravity and then to fill him with the presence of Holy Spirit. |
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They were keenly aware of their sinfulness and eager to undertake the hardships of the Crusade as a penitential act of charity and love. |
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Once athletic girls in pleated short short skirts, they displayed sexual temptation as unchaste harlots, now they've atoned for their sinfulness. |
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Poverty has long antedated capitalism, and exploitation caused by human sinfulness has marked every era. |
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Augustine was in a garden in Milan, overwhelmed by his sinfulness, especially his slavery to sexual desire. |
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The work of the last eight years has taught me many lessons about my own limits as a person and sinfulness as a man. |
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Converts accepted their own ineradicable sinfulness, but they were psychologically freed by the proclamation that God nevertheless considered them innocent or righteous. |
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Promoting oneself at the expense of others is the spontaneous reaction of our sinfulness. |
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Those who admit their sinfulness before God can be redeemed, but those who do not realize their own sins cannot be blessed with redemption. |
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Dare to see beyond the struggles, the conflicts, the human frailty, the sinfulness and the pain that afflicts the Holy Land and its people. |
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It is knit together by the people's common awareness of their own sinfulness and their need for God's mercy. |
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The greater sinfulness of man is why Christ was born a man: to expiate the sin of the first man. |
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What is new in the rite is the place of Scripture, by which we are called to recognize our sinfulness. |
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He learned from them the struggle with sinfulness and weakness and the life of virtue which leads to perfection. |
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People are re-created, born-again, released and cured from evil and sinfulness. |
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After each confession of sinfulness the reader or another member of the assembly will place some incense on the charcoal. |
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This second situation determined the state of human sinfulness, in contrast to the state of primitive innocence. |
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At this point one may ask: How can I preach to others when I am all too conscious of my own weakness and sinfulness? |
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We have also become more conscious that priests are not immune from sinfulness and frailties. |
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But before we can progress with the happy message, the person must sense his sinfulness. |
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Among the Celtic monastics there was a form of spiritual direction in which the monks and the nuns discussed both their sinfulness and their need to reform. |
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Learn to have a deeper sense of your own wretched sinfulness and corruption, and to be more deeply grateful, that by the grace of God you are what you are. |
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Part of acknowledging our inadequacies and sinfulness is to admit when you are doing a lousy job speaking the truth, which is the main burden of the Cdl's message. |
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Instead, the rites of Levitical sacrifice are inaugurated and the priesthood is instituted as a sort of permanent penitential reminder to the people of their sinfulness. |
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The role of the Law is thus to reveal the sins inside our hearts, make us realize that Gods commandments are holy, and to awaken us to our sinfulness. |
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Although poor and fragile because of the sinfulness of her children, the Church commits herself by plunging over and over again into the grace of her baptism through penance and the holy Eucharist. |
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So pray for that intention, my dear friends, and pray also for me, that my sinfulness and unworthiness do not hinder what God and his holy Mother wish to accomplish through my ministry. |
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This is not an attempt to solve the problems caused by sinfulness in our communities, but the issue is, just how do we go about forgiveness and reconciliation. |
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In a sense, all of this provides a picture of what we face every day: wonderful glimpses of God's presence and, at the same time, the thundering presence of human sinfulness. |
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Reformed theologians emphasize that this sinfulness affects all of a person's nature, including their will. |
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Mr Vallely writes that Father Bergoglio underwent years of spiritual labour, contemplating his own sinfulness, before he was ready for this rapprochement. No biography, however diligent, can capture someone's interior life. |
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Here worldliness, creatureliness, and also materiality, not sinfulness, seem to be the other of godliness. |
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People are not on their own able even to fully repent of their sin or prepare themselves to repent because of their sinfulness. |
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We cannot come to this point and fail to see our own sinfulness. |
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We come to the question of humanity's sinfulness in slightly different ways, which then affect how we understand reconciliation, and, ultimately, the role of the church. |
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The New Testament accepts the Judaic concept of sin but regards humanity's state of collective and individual sinfulness as a condition that Jesus came into the world to heal. |
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As a consequence of the distinction of an enormous number of multifarious sins, the concept of a universal sinfulness of mankind is increasingly observed in this period and later. |
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Mankind deserves the judgment of death because of his sinfulness. |
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In the present state of human sinfulness and wounded hearts, however, the Old Testament is strong in its outlook that Justice cannot come to a human person through his own strength, but it is a gift of God. |
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Procopius, in his work Secret History, declared that Justinian was a demon of an emperor who either created the plague himself or was being punished for his sinfulness. |
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Deeply religious Southerners saw the hand of God in history, which demonstrated His wrath at their sinfulness, or His rewards for their suffering. |
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