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How to use penitence in a sentence

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Perseverance is an unmerited gift of grace, just as is also the initial turning of the will to God in faith and penitence.
Such is his infinite penitence and regret that he looks out on the world and the bereaved family through a window of tears.
We are, it seems, so far gone in sin and decadence that no repentance or penitence can be adequate.
Even Fischer, who has faced most criticism, has meekly put on sackcloth and ashes and done penitence.
If he remains within the priesthood it is to practise life-long penitence in a kind of supervised internal exile.
This Ash Wednesday text by Brian Wren invokes the Holy Spirit to help us through this time of penitence and self-examination.
The rituals of confession, penitence and absolution provided the time-honoured solutions.
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.
The 8 days of penitence to be suffered by a Knight Templar guilty of a venial sin.
Two groups emerged: those who supported a more moderate monastic lifestyle, and those who pressed for strictness and penitence.
During his trial at the Old Bailey, Maclaine confessed his crimes with exaggerated penitence.
That might offer a convenient way out for foreign governments anxious to see any sign of official penitence.
They were given the responsability to confess the montaltois, to exonerate them and to inflict a penitence to them.
Could the largest living icon of communism really be on the verge of penitence?
Yet she still fasted, in penitence, and ministered to other sick people and to the elderly.
Black is the color of intellectualism, of abstinence, of penitence.
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.
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.
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.
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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He is probably an edifying spectacle by this time, a mush of maudlin penitence.
And for as much as a man may acquit himself before God by penitence in this world, and not by treasure, therefore should he pray to God to give him respite a while, to beweep and bewail his trespass.
It was not in such a nature to know a gentle mood of penitence for a wrong done.
Be conscience then his punisher, till heaven in mercy gives him penitence, or dooms him in its justice.
To all this problem, vexing so many generations, the clear and witting touch of Lincoln's sacrificial penitence is the master key.
I despatched the note, and she was full of penitence, and gratitude, and tears.
The mother forbade me the house, nor did jean show that penitence that might have been expected.
The priests want Paris to repent and do penitence for its liberative work of truth and justice.
Of which men schulden gladly herken and enquere with al here herte, to wyte, what is penitence, and whens is cleped penitence?
In spite of the gulf set between us, you will still be the mainspring of all my actions, and all the virtues are inspired by penitence and love.
Is there no reality in the penitence thus sealed and witnessed by good works?
Should he give no proof of penitence I must resort to severer measures.
I grow angry and I curse them, and they feign penitence, but behind my back I know they call me a toothless old ape.
From a prudential penitence he had arrived at a genuine one.
Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
In vain the Woman Perfect struggled to subdue her mirth to penitence.
Repent, and we will laugh at your penitence as a shallow deception.
This sermon, which was upon fasting and penitence, terrified them.
Thus adjured, Topsy confessed to the ribbon and gloves, with woful protestations of penitence.
Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul.
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