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How to use sins in a sentence

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I begged him for forgiveness of all my sins, and through Jesus I was pardoned.
It's a tiny, venial sin, but it reenacts much larger, historic sins and haunts his next few visits to Pine Ridge.
Without the confession of faith we are bound to rationalize our actions, excuse our sins, and dodge the law's accusation.
I now repent of all that is past and ask for your forgiveness for all my sins.
I can just go in my prayer closet and confess to God and I don't need to talk about my sins with a man.
The commonplace and venial sins block scrutiny of the bizarre and mortal ones.
In other words, our ecological sins need to be put in context with all our other sins.
I knew that if I trusted in Jesus I would be forgiven for all my sins and could spend all eternity with God.
Given that Jesus died for our sins on Good Friday, during Lent sin is also given attention.
Yet the atoning death of Jesus is the only basis on which man can claim forgiveness of sins.
Intervention by authority was necessary for very serious sins such as adultery, murder, and sacrilege.
His animal represented the ancient goat driven from the temple on the Day of Atonement, bearing the sins of the community.
Nor does he require of us good works to atone for our sins or works of supererogation to atone for the sins of others.
The scant sweepings of venial sins I was left to scavenge were hardly inspiring.
However, it obviously cannot involve either, because the university is famously progressive, and hence abhors both sins.
After all, a priest doesn't provide absolution for sins about to be committed.
Why not go to Christ this very day, and cast your soul on him, with all its sins and all its unbelief, with all its doubts and all its fears?
While they await the arrival of the man's confessor, a local Dominican friar, the brothers encourage him to acknowledge and repent for his sins.
Expect an evocative journey into the heart of darkness where the sins of the past are revisited in the present.
And Washington is repeating the sins of the past while our pundits pusillanimously blank out.
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All that needed to be done to propitiate God's wrath and save his people from their sins had been accomplished.
I said all my prayers and asked for God's forgiveness for my sins and lunged forward.
Christ has brought believers from darkness into a kingdom of light and forgiven their sins absolutely and without question.
The cross of Christ dealt with us, and the sins of the flesh, and the life of Christ is made available to indwell, rebuild and empower us.
Many sins are forgivable, but charging handsomely for coffee that comes directly from an outsized tin of own-label instant is not one of them.
No one contests their falsehoods, inaccuracies, and sins of omission on a point by point basis.
This is a very partial list, restricted to US sins and crimes in the Western Hemisphere.
If Christ did not die for our sins then we are still under the wrath of God and without hope.
John Lauber, formerly an NTSB official and now an aviation safety counselor, once identified the seven cardinal sins leading to accidents.
Years later he would confess among his past sins the desire to set alight the house with his mother and stepfather in it.
Such pursuit is an inherent part of living in a fallen world that is subject to the sins of humankind.
No doubt, the subtropical climate has covered a multitude of sins with greenery.
Connected to the Taoist tradition, followers honor the dead on this day, when the earth god is said to give absolution for the sins of the dead.
If you died with sins unforgiven, you'd need to spend a certain amount of time in a place called Purgatory before finally going to Heaven.
The trouble was that despite being in holy orders they were easily tempted by the sins of the flesh.
Far more serious than their sins against the basic rules of journalism is the corporate stranglehold over the major print and broadcast outlets.
They deem insignificant sins that the church considered monstrous only a few generations ago.
It is absurd to indict a whole people or to banish a whole people to some historical purgatory where they can expiate their sins.
Third, we pray to obtain from him the forgiveness of our sins and the remission of their punishment.
He does not make himself anonymous by excusing his errors and sins as functions of inauspicious circumstances or bad social influences.
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Perhaps as a moralizing subtext, Alexander piped in a recording of a monastic chant of Psalm 51, a prayer for the remission of sins.
Christ taught his disciples to pray that their sins would be forgiven, but he himself never prayed such a prayer.
The bar was condemned anew as a den of iniquity, black with the sins of alcohol and secondhand smoke.
But when you think about it, greed, gluttony, pride and vanity aren't deadly sins.
The culpable do not break down and confess their sins merely as the result of close questioning.
Instead of just asking me for forgiveness, stop committing sins and do good.
I think God will more readily forgive our sins against him, whom we cannot see, than against our fellow humans, whom we do see.
Certainly the American electorate has forgiven the sins of those who tried to avoid the war.
All that acknowledging and bewailing of the manifold sins of wickedness made this extended act of contrition a bit of a downer.
The Church is not only about forbidding the use of contraception and warning against the sins of the flesh.
I can go on and on about our numerous sins, the way we flout laws or conventions or acceptable behaviour without even thinking about it.
Mithra was slain upon a cross in Persia to make atonement for humankind and take away the sins of the world.
The entire venture was an ignoble failure, calling forth from Bernard a passionate lament over the sins of the crusaders.
There and then, he cast himself on the mercy of God, imploring him to forgive his sins and accept his soul for Christ's sake.
So maybe the problem is thinking sins are relative to some arbitrary and ad hoc rulebook, rather than to our very nature and being.
Soon after the offering is made, Oedipus dies peacefully, his sins of incest and patricide forgiven by these benevolent goddesses.
Is it ever possible for another person to pardon sins when the guilt remains?
I've repented my sins to Sepp and he has led me away from the bloodsuckers and parasites that threatened to dissolve my soul.
These latter-day seven deadly sins all seem to be connected with information technology, as the art of communication is known these days.
Confessing and repenting of social sins have rarely been emphasized in church catechesis as strongly as confession of personal sins.
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These three cardinal sins require martyrdom because of their intrinsic severity, and not because of the punishment prescribed for them.
And yet, we are taught that the sins of parents cannot be visited upon children.
Subsequently, Heloise was sent to a nunnery and Abelard to a monastery, but not before he was castrated for his sins against Fulbert's niece.
Feel free to add your own sins, or just pile in and tell me what an awful person I am.
Every day we live in the power of our baptism and in its dying-and-rising rhythm by confessing our sins and hearing the words of forgiveness.
The second part of the article focuses on the sermons from the point of view of sins, the central theme of quadragesimal sermons.
And somewhere across the highway, where our sins lie unatoned, our need to be justified meets our need to be free.
Juliet tells Nurse to tell her mother that she is going to Friar Laurence's cell to confess her sins and be absolved.
Accepting the love of our lord Jeebus into the heart, washing away all previous sins.
The Friar gives absolution for sins in exchange for money and flirts with the prettiest wives.
Generally with the media it's always the sins of omission, not the sins of commission, that are the more grave.
Based on a book by Maurine Dallas Watkins about a true story from 1926, it rollicks with elements of pretty well all seven of the deadly sins.
It also commits two completely unforgivable sins, both of which I will get to momentarily.
He was also a serial adulterer, regularly confessing his sins before committing them afresh.
After all, in the other sins God was angry with people who were hurting other people.
The Israelites followed this pattern by presenting sin offerings to cover their sins by sacrificing an animal life for their disobedience to God.
I suppose it is a bit redundant since that is the nature of a Gallicism, but I suppose there are worse sins to commit when writing.
As these two daily foodfests were the chief sins that got me up to 235, i changed nothing else in my normal diet.
Among the seventeen great sins, unbelief is the greatest, more heinous than murder, theft, adultery and so on.
There will be absolution and remission of sins for all who die in the service of Christ.
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At death our aerial body would pass into an invisible world where it would pay for its sins through pain and then be reincarnated.
None of the sins of these people should be visited upon the members of the diaspora at large.
It's a city that has depended on sins of the flesh for its economic lifeblood, but it is also a city that confesses its sins.
The armed pilgrimage had not lost its allure, nor the promise of remission of sins.
Feeling reasonably guilty for my lack of input in our annual dissection, I decided I needed some intellectual nutrition to atone for my sins.
Jurisdiction and the reservation of absolution of particularly serious sins for pedagogical reasons are defended later.
Whether this is purely good luck or a punishment for the sins of past lives is a moot point.
They would become, in effect, prisoners by birth in Godzone, all because of the alleged sins posed by their parents.
On Ash Wednesday, the faithful seeks repentance for whatever sins he may have committed as he prepares himself for the season of Lent.
The only way that can happen is if all of the girls admit and repent their sins.
And each of us is responsible for the consequences of his own sins, in spite of the fact that we are predisposed to commit them.
Which of the seven deadly sins does he think the average politician would be most susceptible to?
This was an expression of all the sins of the world put into one cup and poured out on Christ while He was on the Cross.
Redemption and forgiveness of sins is through the direct agency of his shed blood.
Considering the HD192's rock-bottom price, any sins of omission are easily forgiven.
He is the High Priest who makes full and final atonement for the sins of His people.
The grace of God is not simply a holy hypodermic whereby my sins are forgiven.
The cross in Mark does not function as the means through which Jesus forgives sins.
Or is it a meager, yet expressive hint that the forgiveness of sins is a foretaste of eternal life?
At the same time, as we confess our sins, let us forgive the faults committed by others toward us.
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He could not do it because no man rightly can forgive the sins he has committed against others.
Poor or bad management covers a multitude of sins that could include all of the above and more.
It was seen as a blissful cornucopia of earthly blessings, easily accessible high-quality sins of the flesh, and delights of the spirit.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
If we do not find a way of resolving the sins of the past then we are doomed to repeat them.
The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.
The movie rollicks with elements of pretty well all seven of the deadly sins.
The two offerings together symbolized a community of people at peace with God because atonement for sins had been made.
In the Levitical Law, the High Priest was required to offer blood sacrifices as an atonement for sins, and confess man's sins to God.
His successors on Chicago's south side have a chance to atone for those sins this week.
The seven deadly sins and their antitheses, the four cardinal virtues and three heavenly graces, provide the book's organising principle.
Today they are more conscious of failures, habits and besetting sins which cause enormous guilt.
Condoned truancy and absence is one of the besetting sins of the education service.
The besetting sins of oppressed people may include self-denial, passivity and complicity in their own oppression.
Christ not only died for the sins of His sheep on the Cross but he established their righteousness through His perfect obedience to God's Law.
An indulgence was a papal document that granted the buyer remission from the need to do penance for his sins.
We can throw ourselves into your arms, knowing that you understand all our sins and misdeeds.
He turned from his sins to Christ and found pardon and power through His death and resurrection.
The sins range from dirtying the floor with urine, barking, coming when called or greeting the owner with enthusiasm.
As usual with Republicans, they project onto others the sins that they themselves commit, in overplus.
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From what I understand, having a beer can lead to such cardinal sins as dancing and cavorting with wild women.
Infants, because they lacked a will developed enough to choose evil, need not be baptized for the remission of sins they had never committed.
Venial sins were to be cleansed by daily use of the Lord's Prayer and by almsgiving.
Unfortunately, shoehorning distant events into modern explanations rarely works and is, indeed, one of the cardinal sins of historical research.
Banks are, in effect, punishing the most competitive companies for their own sins in lending to uncompetitive ones.
I will not judge any of them for it is not my place to judge the sins and virtues of my fellow man.
We hate it and regard it as a travesty of justice when applied to others, especially others whose sins hurt us.
This goes beyond the day-to-day omissions and sins that characterize politics.
If you do not forgive men their sins your heavenly Father will not forgive you.
Fantasising about being a saint in the city and obsessing on the prospect of eternal hellfire, Charlie realises he must atone for his sins.
We are members of one another and it is entirely fitting for the Church as a whole to do penance for the sins of the clergy.
The rest of the story's 2,000 words or so comprise an extended rehash of all the family's real, imagined and inflated sins.
After attaining the age of discretion, each of the faithful is bound to confess serious sins at least once a year.
Although tasty, I have a feeling the strong flavours covered a multitude of sins at that price.
His death is the divine judgment on me and my sins which he, the blessed Lamb of God, took instead of me.
Have we ever looked at human lives and felt our hearts break, not because of the sins committed but because of the potential left unattended?
While evil men go from bad to worse, we can no longer even get away with sins of omission!
But while we are apologizing for past misdeeds, isn't it time to offer preemptive apologies for our current sins of omission and commission?
On Good Friday, continental Europeans commemorate that Christ was crucified and died to absolve our sins and give us eternal salvation.
The sins of omission are always worse than the sins of commission in journalism.
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Finally, several respondents take issue with my policy recommendations, based on alleged sins of commission or omission.
He immediately points out that sins against this commandment include not helping one's neighbor in preventing unchastity.
As the parable implies, the fervently devout may have a harder time admitting their sins of commission and omission than the less observant.
And those who shun the great sins and indecencies, and whenever they are angry, they forgive.
They may also lie on beds of nails, walk on fire and undertake other penances to build character and atone for sins.
I simply mean that they are now living the suffering they've inflicted on others as penance for their sins.
Most people indulge in small gross acts which cannot be called crimes or deadly sins.
When I confess my sins and ask God for favour he requires that my confession of sin include forgiveness of those who have sinned against me.
In this way they make Christ not only useless to us but also a judge and a tyrant who is angry because of our sins and who damns sinners.
They are among the least trusted, most abused people on the planet, and their sins can go unforgiven for decades.
They were unrighteously condemning others for the same sins they were also guilty of.
There are sins against the church, and sins against nature, which is God's older and purer handiwork.
Of all the sins of Jerusalem, these two were singled out by God as the most severe.
We interceded on behalf of the living and the dead, and we confessed the sins of the whole world.
Yet despite their magnitude, these sins are of the venial rather than the mortal variety.
He gave us the Law and sent His only begotten Son, Jesus, to save us by taking all our sins through His baptism.
And to this request from Him, once again I answered to Him uniquely by the contrition of my sins.
If you have mortal sins not yet confessed to a priest, confess them before receiving Holy Communion in order not t o offend God seriously.
The very first thing He did on His mission was to wash away our sins by being baptized by John the Baptist.
Jesus' baptism was to wash away sins, which was directly related to our receiving the Holy Spirit.
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Listen to it with attention for I am going to repeat it to you many times as an answer to the contrition of your sins.
There is nothing wrong with a funeral service where we ask God to forgive the sins of the deceased.
They believe that since the Law tells us not to commit adultery, one who commits such sins will be stoned to death.
With all our sins, if the law of God is applied strictly to the letter, who among us could stay alive?
Namely, we have to cast away sins and evil and purify and sanctify our hearts.
It is such a generation where people commit sins just in the normal course of life even though they don't do it willfully.
Even while committing sins, people think that the only requirement needed to wash themselves clean again is for sin to be expunged.
Next, Laodicea must obtain the white raiment, symbolizing the righteousness of Jesus Christ which cleanses us from all our sins.
All creations are clean, but only the things that come out of human beings, that is, the sins, defile us.
He was later judged for our sins at the Cross, freeing us from eternal damnation.
Their sins are unforgivable, and their disregard of the children is an abomination.
So, by allowing them some trials, God lets them realize their sins and cast away sinful nature itself.
If you pull out such sins first, you can cast away many other sins as well.
As you wrap up this year, I urge you to cast away the sins that you haven't cast away yet.
If you continue to pray fervently you can cast away sins and evil that seemed to be impossible to cast away.
The baptism of Jesus is the righteous way of saving all humanity by washing away our sins.
What can we give God the Father who unsparingly gave up His only begotten Son in order to save us from our sins?
The most sought-after of these confessors are the penitentiaries who have power to absolve from censures or from sins reserved to the pope.
Those who have the truth in their heart, those who have cast away sins and become sanctified can hear it clearly.
Another is that consciously abstaining from food helps to atone for mistakes and sins.
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But they also teach us that there are no unpardonable sins, none that cannot be efaced by expiation.
Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered, whose sin the Lord does not count against him.
Christ's redeeming sacrifice has the power to forgive even the gravest of sins, and to bring forth good from even the most terrible evil.
In addition Toltecs and Aztecs sometimes burned a dog with a human corpse in the belief that the latter's sins would thus be transferred to the dog.
Compare Inside Job with Capitalism, Michael Moore's entertaining polemic on the broader sins of laissez-faire economics.
Cloning carries the potential for such misuse and can be fettered to the sins of human pride and arrogance.
And when He had taken the cup, He gave thanks and said, Drink ye all of it: this is My Blood which is shed for you for the remission of sins.
The indulgence, however, does not apply to sins that have not yet been committed.
A broad bipartisan House Judiciary Committee majority found his sins to rise to the level of impeachable offenses.
Showing no pity for a man like himself, can he then plead for his own sins?
To leave a piton behind was one of the cardinal sins of rock-climbing.
The question is whether his sins justify American and British petulance at their failure to get rid of him.
Just as he forgave the sins of the paralytic and restored him to bodily health, so he continues his work of healing and salvation today through the sacrament.
Let us just imagine that a person's heart is made of glass and filled to the brim with some filthy liquid, namely, our sins.
Whoever respects his father is atoning for his sins, he who honours his mother is like someone amassing a fortune.
Vanity, the need personally to stand in the foreground as clearly as possible, strongly tempts the politician to commit one or both of these sins.
There were the reported sins of Sister Cornelia of the Convent of Leuven, who was accused, tried and convicted of stealing 1,300 florins from a patient.
The good old sins of avarice and greed help to compound the problems.
He sent John as the representative of all human beings so that he could baptize Jesus and pass on all the sins of the world to Him.
The entrance antiphon states that the Lord forgets and forgives the sins of those who convert.
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He was known as the epitome of arrogance, a man with the highest regard for his own art, an iron will and a taste for what St Peter would regard as the sins of the flesh.
This I vow in full knowledge of my sins of pride and vanity and lustfulness, and of those sins known and unknown of my husband, and those too of my boy.
That's what the aristocrats of 18 th-century Venice did when they celebrated Carnevale, their last chance to indulge the sins of the flesh before Lent.
Because he will forgive their iniquity and remember their sins no more.
Thus the Holy Spirit enlightens the confused souls of this age of their sins, on God's righteousness and on the judgment for their sins.
He absorbs the corruption, the filth, the sins of the flesh, the manager giving him orders now drunk at the bar with his arms around two giggling blondes.
I believe You suffered on the cross for my sins and died in my place to pay the penalty for my sins, and that You rose again.
His sacrifice is the salvation of sinners, and His baptism is the very witness to washing away all the sins of humankind.
As the Lamb of God, He takes upon Himself the sins of repentant men, and transfers them to the heavenly sanctuary.
You are not born again yourself, but are trying to atone for your sins through prayers of repentance.
She believed that when she confessed her sins to the priest that she was in fact confessing to God who was listening and could forgive her for those sins.
The first four poems repeat ideas from the second section, which compared rocks with sins, such as the shame, impudency and injuriousness shared by rocks and sinners.
Our sins were reckoned to him and his righteousness was imputed to us.
It strengthens us in charity, wipes away venial sins and preserves us from mortal sin in the future.
It is to make atonement to the Most Scared Heart for all the sins of the world and to implore His grace and mercy for every family in the Ferrybank Parish.
Of course we carried the sins of our fathers, and our fathers' fathers.
The primary focus of Sunday school was on the sins we might commit, rather than the good works we might perform.
Indeed, in view of the fact that all the faithful are called to holiness, it is recommended that they confess venial sins also.
The Great America who could have been above all has fallen for sin above all sins, says the Lord.
It is held to forgive the sins of this poor creature, and it may take some time?
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For his sins he is now regarded as a hypocrite, nay, a traitor.
These are troubling times we are in mired in, for the Lord is witness to the crimes of his children and has predestined us to suffer for our sins.
You must cry to him that he will have mercy on you and pardon your sins and become your Lord and Saviour, and keep asking him until you know that he has heard you.
When the forgiveness of sins is considered, the use of the aorist tense in the Lord's Prayer makes clear that only a final forgiveness is sought when the Lord comes.
For the love of God, Allah, Yahweh and the winds willing repent your sins!
Through receiving Christ's work of salvation and through faith in Him, our sins can be forgiven, and we can know God and commune with Him.
The canker is suggestive of the character weaknesses, hurtful habits and secret sins that lurk below the surface of our respectability until exposed by extreme stress.
He passes the time by visiting bathhouses, where he writhes in licentious congress soapy enough to lave his sins and conceal the nether regions forbade by Japanese censorship.
For all I knew, God partook of our sins and laughed in secret from the dark caverns of the rubber plantations, exulting shamelessly in his double-facedness.
More important-because it hits at the most cardinal sins of the sentimental writers-is Dennis's objection to the mixed emotional response expected of the play's audience.
Politics doesn't look at all like the hagiographies I read when I was at the Jesuit monastery, where all the saints were perfect, no venial sins even.
The sins of the fathers were being visited upon them and they were determined not to commit the same sins which, in their turn, would be visited upon their sons.
Can it, as the prophets suggest, expiate our sins and bring us closer to God?
The majority of these power-hungry leaders are trying to make up for sins in their own lives or for the past traumas and hurts they have experienced.
When Cullotta looks back on his life, he acknowledges his deadly sins and shrugs when folks ask him about the prison time he did.
Diabolic Lounge® is, in short, a graphic novel with a humoristic background based on good, evil and the seven deadly sins.
How can one person, no matter how noble, confess the sins of another?
But, in a major way, harping on the sins of Arafat and Abbas is like flogging a dead horse.
Some men's sins follow after them unconfessed and are judged in wrath at the judgment.
Seventy weeks are determined on your people and on your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins.
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He bears all patiently, and at the end of that period an angel tells him that his sins are expiated and he is restored to his family and possessions.
He is to be sacrificed to ensure the sins of the settlement are expiated.
The professor sees in his pupil a chance to expiate past sins.
If you got involved in some crime and you had to expiate your sins, you didn't go to the local courts, you went to the local priest and you made an appropriate offering.
When St. Gregory the Great drew up his list of the seven deadly sins in the 6th century A. D., he placed pride at the very top.
That would be the sound of a desperate bid to my inner being to forgive my outer being's sins.
They may know about your unforgiven sins and won't hesitate to blurt out all the dirty little facts through the mouth of the victim you are trying to help.
A child who emulated some of the pro players these days might go on to be guilty of all the seven deadly sins.
Because the sinless Jesus shed His precious blood, sinners could now be forgiven of their sins and receive salvation and eternal life.
Water from the Ganges is used for ritual cleansing and religious rites, and bathing in it is believed to wash away sins.
We have repented for the unbelief and our sins are blotted out.
O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you.
White Southerners crave an innocent past, a personal distance from the sins of their ancestors.
Thus, he passed all their yearly sins onto the head of the sin offering all at once.
John had been baptising the crowds for some time as a sign of repentance for their sins and turning back to God.
Boesky notwithstanding, greed remains on the list of the seven deadly sins, which are not really sins as such, but grave character flaws.
The latter covers a multitude of sins and horrors, as he well knows.
Stand fast and know that the times ahead are fulfilment of the sins of the nation.
And after the trauma of so many admonitory sermons on the sins of his late father, he never thereafter regarded Scottish Presbyterianism as a fit religion for a gentleman.
In the New Testament, Jesus took away all our sins through His baptism in the Jordan as the Lamb of God and died for us.
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But if you are still shedding tears because you haven't cast away sins, or if you haven't sown much, you wouldn't reap much harvest with joy.
This offering pointed to the future spotless Lamb of God, the Messiah, who would be God's perfect sacrifice for our sins.
Those who believe that all sins were passed onto Jesus through His baptism become sinless forever.
Finally, we should remember the warnings given by Gandhi, which are the seven deadly sins of most people in history.
Why did the Founder leave us such detailed personal notes in which he inveighs, sometimes mercilessly, against his own sins and unworthiness?
But if we look for the reasons for his fall only in the sins of the mossbacks in Washington, we will miss an important part of the lesson of all of this.
This is because God justifies the sinner by overlooking his or her sins, or one justifies an offender by pardoning his or her faults.
Those who have not accepted the redemption of Jesus in their hearts cannot but agonize over their sins.
Heracles goes on his twelve labours, not to better mankind, but to achieve immortality and atone for his own sins.
The blasphemy itself is a grave sin, but in most cases they accumulate many more sins before they commit such a grave sin.
So also, to remember our own sins is not the same thing as to present ourselves to the mercy of God.
Forgive us our sins, blot out from us our iniquities, and take to Thyself our souls in the company of the righteous.
Those who admit their sinfulness before God can be redeemed, but those who do not realize their own sins cannot be blessed with redemption.
At times, it is less holy, filled with betrayals, cowardliness and the setbacks or failures of our personal sins and the sins of those around us.
No repentant sinner, whatever the number of his sins, is a hopeless case for God.
After World War II, the German Protestant churches issued a statement of repentance for their sins of omission and commission during the Third Reich.
In His love He had to send His only begotten Son Jesus to this earth and permit Him to become the propitiation for the sins of sinners.
It was the sacrifice of atonement for a year's worth of Israel's sins all at once.
Or they might attend church, but they don't even have the pangs of conscience even though they commit grave sins.
But we rarely hear about the West's more recent sins of commission.
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But it's also impossible to set aside Heidegger's sins — and they cannot help but reduce the ardency with which his readers relate to him.
A human being cannot get free of his fallen nature and his sins with his own power.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
In the course of the play, the characters probe each other's sins and bring alive their guilty memories.
Everyone has an evil and dirty conscience from birth, but if we believe that all our sins were passed onto Jesus, we can blot out that stain.
May Almighty God have mercy upon you, forgive you your sins, and bring you to life everlasting.
Jesus saved us from all impiousness and sins once and for all by being baptized once and bleeding once.
He petitioned the Pope to remove la gourmandise from the list of cardinal sins.
For he surrendered himself to death and was even counted among the wicked, bearing the sins of the multitude and interceding for sinners.
War and rumors of war are matters of judgments of past failures by all, of sins of commission and omission, of what has been done and what has been left undone.
He had the gift to reveal the model's hidden sins one after the other: their knavery, vileness, trickery.
Jesus is free to speak to every class of society, rebuking them for their sins and summoning them to an authentic fidelity to God.
I've recently learned that I will soon be leaving this world, so I must absolve my sins in the short time I have remaining in order to gain my acceptance into Heaven.
Many of our sins are absolved through priests in confessional boxes.
The prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, feels the past should be left well alone, and that the transition to democracy expurgated past sins.
God the Father couldn't just watch human beings being born with original sin, living in sins and going the path to eternal death.
So now I'm suffering the effects of one of the deadly sins, gluttony.
But in the very next breath, he insisted that this new birth was more than simply an opportunity to have one's sins forgiven.
It is peculiar that while the physical penalties of gluttony may be the heaviest of all the deadly sins, it is the sin that deposits the least guilt.
The early common law was hard put to deal with the intentional infliction of harm, and sins of omission are popularly regarded as less culpable than sins of commission.

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