Sentences with phrase «sign of repentance»

In the New Testament, Jesus refers to the use of sackcloth and ashes as signs of repentance: «Woe to you, Chorazin!

Remember how the father in the parable «had compassion and ran and embraced him and kissed» the son before there was any chance for him to test the son for signs of repentance.

Baptism, as John preached and practiced it, was thus a sign of repentance and forgiveness.

Instead we can now ask them to believe that God in his goodness has received their innocent victim and they should have a Mass said as a sign of their repentance and in thanksgiving for God's mercy.

God tells Jonah to preach judgment upon Nineveh, but because they show some signs of repentance, He holds off for a couple hundred years while they continue to run roughshod over the entire Ancient World (some repentance that was!).

Writing for ConHome on Sunday she was offering zero signs of repentance.

If you make a mark you thought was honest and you find it wasn't, then you repent, and the mark that's left is a sign of your repentance.