Sentences with phrase «only penitence»
On the other hand, if one is relying upon God's forgiveness, or grace, no degree of mere obedience as such is required, only penitence and faith.
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I can only imagine what happens when the ashes of last year's palm branches are streaked across one's forehead in a corporate service of penitence and prayer.
Catholics do not care only about mercy and penitence, of course, but also about justice.
Only genuine humility and penitence before God in conjunction with trust in his forgiving mercy can keep the balance true.
Both in the fact of sin and in deliverance from it by penitence and forgiveness, what is involved is not a relation between God and the sinner only.
Penitence is the only important element of it and that doesn't require ashes.
Should someone explain that the fear of God, in the sense of that felt in this world of time, should belong to childhood and therefore disappear with the years as does childhood itself, or should be like a happy state of mind that can not be maintained, but only remembered; should someone explain that penitence comes like the weakness of old age, with the wasting away of strength, when the senses are blunted, when sleep no longer strengthens but weakens; then this would be Impiety and folly.
This is not to say that sin and penitence are the only notes that need to be sounded; there is need of a positive upbuilding of personality.
Two things must be said unequivocally: first, that it is God who saves us and not we ourselves; and second, that God saves only those who in penitence and obedience respond to his proffered grace.
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.
For what the modern age has taught us is that the kingdom of hell is essentially a respectable place, where the devil is best served by remaining incognito, where sin and remorse and penitence trouble no one with their curbside importunities — «Please, sir, only a sou!»
He can only declare God's forgiveness and real forgiveness depends partly on the penitence of the sinner and on the true Christian character of the priest.