Sentences with phrase «penitent spirit»

Most medicines need to be given in repeated doses before healing is achieved; dressings on wounds need to be changed frequently to prevent infection taking hold; and so it is with the life of the penitent spirit.

We are saved by God's gift in the ministry and death of Christ as we accept these gifts in a humble and penitent spirit and dedicate our lives to God.

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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.

The ethical life which Jesus exalts in many of his most characteristic teachings is the ethical life of the penitent: the kingdom of God belongs to the poor in spirit, the meek, those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, those who seek mercy, the childlike, the humble.

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.

I would weigh in quietly with local authorities, who did not mind if this was done respectfully in a friendly (even better, penitent) spirit.