Perseverance is an unmerited gift of grace, just as is also the initial turning of the will to God in faith and penitence. |
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Such is his infinite penitence and regret that he looks out on the world and the bereaved family through a window of tears. |
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We are, it seems, so far gone in sin and decadence that no repentance or penitence can be adequate. |
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Even Fischer, who has faced most criticism, has meekly put on sackcloth and ashes and done penitence. |
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If he remains within the priesthood it is to practise life-long penitence in a kind of supervised internal exile. |
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This Ash Wednesday text by Brian Wren invokes the Holy Spirit to help us through this time of penitence and self-examination. |
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The rituals of confession, penitence and absolution provided the time-honoured solutions. |
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The Bogomils of 10th century Bulgaria taught a life of penitence, prayer, wandering and simple worship in order to escape a world deemed evil by nature. |
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The 8 days of penitence to be suffered by a Knight Templar guilty of a venial sin. |
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Two groups emerged: those who supported a more moderate monastic lifestyle, and those who pressed for strictness and penitence. |
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During his trial at the Old Bailey, Maclaine confessed his crimes with exaggerated penitence. |
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That might offer a convenient way out for foreign governments anxious to see any sign of official penitence. |
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They were given the responsability to confess the montaltois, to exonerate them and to inflict a penitence to them. |
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Could the largest living icon of communism really be on the verge of penitence? |
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Yet she still fasted, in penitence, and ministered to other sick people and to the elderly. |
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Black is the color of intellectualism, of abstinence, of penitence. |
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This, added to his real concern for the physical and spiritual welfare of Valene and Coleman, propels him to take drastic steps to secure their penitence and reformation. |
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They were intended to move the will of the one praying not only to compunction for sin and penitence, but to a desire for God and confidence in God's love. |
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Those who seek suffering or bodily penitence do so because they do not have the slightest idea of which offerings are most pleasing to Me, nor do they have any idea of the love and mercy of your Father. |
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However we may justify the beginnings of disunion, we lament its continuance and henceforth must labour, in penitence and faith, to build up our broken walls. |
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It may well be that no words can be found, or that the ancient prayers of penitence and confession can be enlarged or simply come to contain the new experience of anguish. |
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Instead, Lancelot declares that, if she will take a life of penitence, then so will he. |
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He then retires to a hermitage to live the remainder of his life in penitence, with eight of his kin joining him, including Sir Bors. |
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However, after Arthur's death, Guinevere retires to a convent in penitence for her infidelity. |
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Her tears and perfume expressed penitence and gratitude. |
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Theresa advocated strict monasticism and a revival of more ancient traditions of penitence. |
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The failure of the Serbian parliament and of the parliament of Republika Srpska to condemn these massacres testifies to their lack of either maturity or penitence. |
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He lived this period as a sort of purgatory for penitence of his sins. |
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The word Mi-CarĂªme simply means the middle of Lent, the Thursday of the third full week in the 40 days of fasting and penitence leading up to Easter. |
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Like a magnet, similar to Rome and Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela attracted pilgrims from all corners of the world who wanted to obtain penitence for their faults. |
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As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I cannot, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror. |
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The Essenes sought rather to prepare for the coming of the Lord's Anointed One by a life of penitence that featured ritual purification by means of lustral baths. |
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