Sentences with phrase «for signs of repentance»

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The switch on his love - gestalt has a hair trigger, so that with the first sign of true repentance his eye for their goodness will overwhelm his eye for their sin.

Instead we can now ask them to believe that God in his goodness has received their innocent victim and they should have a Mass said as a sign of their repentance and in thanksgiving for God's mercy.

God tells Jonah to preach judgment upon Nineveh, but because they show some signs of repentance, He holds off for a couple hundred years while they continue to run roughshod over the entire Ancient World (some repentance that was!).

The act of acceptance — making the sign of the cross or blinking one's eyelids — was surely not the same as repentance, and administering the sacrament after death, of course, asked for no act of will at all, and was scarcely defendable even if one made the curious concession to time that the body must not be cold.

Repeated sin may well be a sign of imperfect repentance, but that is no reason for less frequent confession.

Or to ask it differently, what is the relationship between Cobb's signs of genuine vitality (societal engagement, responsiveness to challenges, repentance for past wrongs) and sociological criteria of ecclesial vitality such as numerical growth and attendance?

Writing for ConHome on Sunday she was offering zero signs of repentance.