Sentences with phrase «also penitence»

As their interest and care centered increasingly on man's inner life, on spiritual quality and ethical devotion, as the stronger emotions ceased being merely anger or grief and became also penitence, aspiration, moral idealism, and the love of God, the word ruach expanded its meanings to cover the case.

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Catholics do not care only about mercy and penitence, of course, but also about justice.

Though we confess today in humble penitence and know ourselves cleansed by God's forgiveness, we must know also, if we are not blinded by arrogance or false hopes, that tomorrow we shall need to say again:

They are immediately followed by a divine oracle uttered by Hosea in which Israel is rebuked by God for the superficial character of her penitence and for her belated profession of cupboard - love loyalty which could be displayed when it suited Israel, but which could also vanish quickly «like the morning mist».

This is true not only because penitence is possible only if one acknowledges the law and desires nothing so much as to fulfill it, but also because penitence inevitably issues in a renewed commitment to doing the will of God.