Sentences with phrase «moral penitence»

It shouldn't result in a lifetime of economically - driven moral penitence.

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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.

For those grieving over real guilt for actual misdeeds, Gregory hypothesizes that three stages are required for a return to moral health — penitence, pardon, and reparation.

The Catholic confessional with its questions for moral inventory has great value in stirring the individual to self - examination and penitence; it gives rise to great abuses when such confession is taken too lightly.

In a magic incantation text which does not rise to the moral level of these great psalms of penitence, there is nevertheless to be found a remarkable list of what must evidently have been regarded as wrong by the best Babylonian thought.