Sentences with phrase «penitent heart»

Her award - winning debut feature documentary Memories of a Penitent Heart, about her uncle Miguel's untimely death from AIDS, was called «exceptional» and «profoundly affecting» by The Village Voice.

God will never reject a humble and penitent heart Psalm 51 v 17.

Prayer for the Day: «O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever.

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For I would come to you with a penitent and contrite heart, if I were guilty of sin, which I am not saying I am, and I am not saying that I am not.

Purity of heart is what God requires of him and the penitent demands it of himself before God.

There are profound insights into the priestly mercy of the Sacred Heart viewed from the perspective of the dying Penitent Thief.

(It is) for every penitent and heedful one, (32) Who feareth the Beneficent in secret and cometh with a contrite heart.

The answer must undoubtedly be that Jesus himself had brought home to the hearts of those who really heard his words that God stood ready to receive not simply the righteous — there was none righteous — but the penitent, those who acknowledged the absolute righteousness of God, felt the awful force of its demands upon them, realized how far short they fell of it, and with humble and contrite hearts sought his forgiveness and help.

Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.