Your editiorial on Martin Luther King, Jr. (February) defends his status as an American hero in spite
of his unrepented sins of adultery and plagiarism.
First, God wills the salvation of everyone and does not positively condemn anyone unless he or she is guilty
of an unrepented grave personal sin.
The sentences of human magistrates can not be, and are not meant to be, a final requital
of unrepented evil; that awaits the great day when Christ returns to judge the quick and the dead.
Not exact matches
I think that there will be some initial tears for those who have not recognised the harm they have done to others in this life and before everlasting joy is granted our
unrepented sins (ie the failure to recognise, admit and change our minds about our weaknesses that hurt others I this life) are laid bare and the full depravity
of our own soul is known to us.
Whether in a sense
of guilt and inner unrest which drives many to psychiatrists or in the perhaps more terrible lethargy that drugs conscience to insensibility, punishment for
unrepented sin is an inescapable fact
of life.
It's one
of the worst
unrepented crimes in history.
For Judaism in his eyes is linked to the eternal love
of God for His chosen people, a love
unrepented of and faithful to the end
of time.
It has only two rubrics, and «everything which is not
of faith is sin»; every
unrepented sin is a new sin, and every moment it is
unrepented is new sin.
May we conclude that they were in retribution to the father for his wickedness accumulated and
unrepented of, and to the son for allowing his father's wrong to go unavenged?
Her book,
Unrepented Ego: The Self - Portraits
of Lucas Samaras (2003), opens with the artist's observation: «Professional self - investigation — which is what a good self - portrait is — is as noble a search as any other, and I have always shared what I have learned with the public.»