Sentences with phrase «even penance»

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Repentance is at best only an incentive to this turning, and it may even stand in the way of it if a man tortures himself with the idea that his acts of penance are not sufficient and thereby withholds his best energies from the work of reversal.

He even humbled the Emperor Henry IV, forcing him to submit at Canossa, in north Italy in 1077, and to do penance.

They do not even wear sandals (Q 10:4), perhaps as a symbol of penance, perhaps only to attest that they, even if unprotected, nevertheless get by.

And so it goes, even including the medieval idea that no human penance can give God the honor due but that in Christ this has been provided and so men and women are released from their wrongdoing.

This is true even in the churches which give little or no emphasis to baptism, the Lord's Supper, or the other five sacraments recognized in Catholicism: confirmation, penance, marriage, extreme unction, and, for priests, ordination.

Yet even he can scarcely understand that his rite of public penance and purification will also be the rite of ordination of the great High Priest who is to come, and thereafter of all of us who are to have access to the Holy of Holies because of his sacrifice.

Christ teaches that chastity is possible, even in difficult cases because God's grace is more powerful than sin.3 Chastity, remember, is a fruit of grace, not a penance or a deprivation.

Certainly the extent of our moral disintegration is connected with a religious disintegration but we can not even come in sight of a radical religious recovery until the churches and the people of this country begin to do penance for the way we have tried to pour the new wine of the gospel into some peculiarly American bottles.

Thus with their power to bind and loose (penance), to regenerate (baptism), and to distribute the Body of the King, which enables one «to escape the fire of hell» and «obtain the crowns» of heaven — in these actions every priest is raised above parents, kings, and even angels.37

The organic store I also shop at in Bergerac has a sarrasin (buckwheat) bread that is even more like penance, although it would be my go - to loaf if I heard a burglar trying to get in.

The film is, even by Schrader's standards, a bleak endeavor, concerned with the durability of spirituality, its susceptibility to corruption and radicalism, and its place in modern American life: with the slow decay of the planet, as well as with pain, penance, and the validity of suicide and murder.

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He is performing a kind of abject penance that is hard to dismiss, even if you may initially want to; it is too quiet, unsettling and self - effacing.

I must have conjugated 1,000 verbs as penance that evening in detention.