Sentences with phrase «broken penitence»
We can now think of God not as the threatening judge but as the waiting father, and we can come to him in heart - broken penitence but nonetheless in childlike confidence and trust.
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From vindictiveness to magnanimity; from tribalism to universality, from the regret of penalized men over broken taboos to the penitence of humble men over personal guilt; from supplications for physical benefits to prayer as the fulfilling of interior conditions of spiritual growth; from the desire to impose man's will on a god to the desire that God's will should be done through man — such are the developments revealed in the recorded prayers of the Bible.