Sentences with phrase «penitence concerns»

There sin is a deep, inward defilement; goodness is an interior fountain of spiritual quality; penitence concerns what a man is behind what he does; and the desire for a good life calls out the prayer for spiritual rebirth,

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(Judges 10:9 - 10) At the first, therefore, penitence was a public rather than a private matter, and the sense of sin concerned the violated customs of the social group rather than the inner quality of the individual.

Here too we express penitence both for our neglect and for having sometimes regarded evangelism and social concern as mutually exclusive.