How To Use Penitence In A Sentence
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From a religious angle it is about seeking penitence; irreligiously we look behind at what we could have done better.
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«On ne va pas maintenant commencer des séances de pénitence nationale», a-t-il dit.
Archive 2007-06-01
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So he ate and drank and made merry and took his pleasure and gave gifts of gear and coin and was profuse with gold and addrest himself up to eating fowls and breaking the seals of wine-flasks and listening to the giggle of the daughter of the vine, as she gurgled from the flagon and enjoying the jingle of the singing-girls; nor did he give over this way of life, till his wealth was wasted and the case worsened and all his goods went from him and he bit his hands284 in bitter penitence.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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This Ash Wednesday text by Brian Wren invokes the Holy Spirit to help us through this time of penitence and self-examination.
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The rituals of confession, penitence and absolution provided the time-honoured solutions.
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I have written this account in penitence and in grief, as a man who failed to raise his pig, and to explain my deviation from the classic course of so many raised pigs.
The Animal Kingdom
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-- That this expresses a positive divine act, by which those who wilfully close their eyes and harden their hearts against the truth are judicially shut up in their unbelief and impenitence, is admitted by all candid critics [as Olshausen], though many of them think it necessary to contend that this is in no way inconsistent with the liberty of the human will, which of course it is not.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The idea of the Pyrenees is very charming, and I do not wonder Mrs. Malkin inclines thither, though I remember that when I was there, great as was my admiration for them, I felt rather as I was guilty of infidelity to the Alps all the time and made haste back to the latter, with something of penitence in delight at being once more upon my mountains.
Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
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There was something strange, almost timeless, about this stream of people walking down where the road had been, not angry, not complaining, as though paying penitence for crimes no one could identify.
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What ... so I should, uh, flagellate myself in penitence?
Authorial Unintention
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In a small dome-like cavity, hollowed out of the roof of this passage, hung a large bell; and in a cell opening from the side of the passage immediately beneath the dome, dwelt an old nun, who, for some dreadful misdeed committed in her youth, had voluntarily consigned herself to the convent of the Carmelites, and, having passed through the ordeal of the chamber of penitence, had accepted the office of sextoness in that department of the establishment.
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
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Why then is that impenitence which is never forgiven, spoken of as blasphemy against the Holy Spirit only?
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
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When God's Word comes to such an one, and shows him his wretched state, when he _comes to himself_, his penitence is likely to be deep and painful, and when he is enabled to believe, his faith will probably be quite joyful, because he realizes the depth from which he was drawn.
The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church
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[131: 1] Guido's second speech, wherein he tells the truth, in the hope that his "impenitence" may defer his execution.
Browning's Heroines
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He expressed suitable penitence for what he had done.
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Even better is a S. Jerome in Penitence, of the same size, in the guardaroba of Duke Cosimo; for if Fra Filippo was a rare master in all his pictures, he surpassed himself in the small ones, to which he gave such grace and beauty that nothing could be better, as may be seen in the predelle of all the panels that he painted.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna
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Black is the color of intellectualism, of abstinence, of penitence.
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They were intended to move the will of the one praying not only to compunction for sin and penitence, but to a desire for God and confidence in God's love.
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By night, and almost naked, covered with only a sendal and hood, the faithful males of Tzintzuntzan practice an unusual form of penitence, which consists of walking through the town, their faces covered, the ankles shackled with the same shackles which the town fathers have jealously guarded for the past 500 years, since the era of slavery under the Spanish Conquest.
A Sneak Peek at Good Friday in Michoacan
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See how the impenitence is described (v. 7): They return not from their ways, the ways of their own hearts, into the ways of God's commandments again.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Now though we are but few, yet are we of a good stock, and of one heart and one will; by God's help let us go out and smite them to-morrow, early in the morning, and you who are not in a state of penitence, go and shrieve yourselves and repent ye of your sins.
Chronicle of the Cid
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He recognized three sacraments: baptism, the Eucharist in both kinds, and penitence.
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Therefore the same applies to impenitence which is a species of the sin against the Holy Ghost.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Nur al-Din repented him of that he had done, whenas repentance profited him naught, and his mother sait to him, O my son, this penitence will not profit thee; nor will aught avail thee but that thou arise forthwith and seek safety in flight: go forth the house privily and take refuge with one of thy friends and there what
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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We are, it seems, so far gone in sin and decadence that no repentance or penitence can be adequate.
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The publicity of their penitence is also implied (compare Jer 7: 29; 48: 38).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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An aspect of penitence she had not demanded, but the silly gabbier under a stigma she could not pardon.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete
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But it does not logically follow that the only way to show penitence is to go stick yourself in a cell.
The Interesting Thing About Bad Priests
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In the Catholic tradition, absolution from sin is obtained through confession, in which the penitent confesses to a priest who then absolves the sin and administers penitence.
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The combat had ceased above, but the flames had increased in the well to such an extent that the marquis was compelled to beat a rapid retreat toward the chamber of penitence, whither the old sextoness had already fled.
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
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When by the next morning he had slept off his debauch, and came round to recollection of his enormities, his penitence knew no bounds; he would prostrate himself in the Joss-house, and in the most abject terms implore forgiveness for his intemperate language over-night.
Under the Dragon Flag
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Impunity hardens sinners in impiety, and the patience of God is shamefully abused by many who, instead of being led by it to repentance, are confirmed by it in their impenitence.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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The last and the real cause of their impenitence is the state of sin which they freely chose as their portion on earth and in which they passed, unconverted, into the next life and into that state of permanence (status termini) by nature due to rational creatures, and to an unchangeable attitude of mind.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Obstinate impenitence is the grossest self-murder.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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So it was that the scholar began his researches at the abbey, continuously aware of the three novices who toiled at the drive-mill and the fourth novice who invited glare-blindness atop the ladder to keep the lamp burning and adjusted-a situation which caused the Poet to versify mercilessly concerning the demon Embarrassment and the outrages he perpetrated in the name of penitence or appeasement.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
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May they soon come, in penitence, to pledge eternal fealty to the nation.
The Curtained Throne
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The reverse also holds, that failure to live morally betrays and invalidates religious devotion unless there is genuine penitence.
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England, and follow your example, I think — turn hermit, or some plaguy thing or other, and see what a constant course of penitence and mortification will do for me.
Clarissa Harlowe
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I'm awfy sorry aboot that, hen," she offered, then deciding another show of penitence and retribution was appropriate, slapped Demi yet again.
Country of the Blind
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Michael shot her a reproving glance, so she covered her mouth in mock penitence.
MORE TALES OF THE CITY
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But scarcely had those few individuals effected their retreat in this manner, when a tremendous crash was heard, cries and shrieks of horror and dismay burst from those who had not as yet passed through the opening, and then the roof of the chamber of penitence and all the adjacent cells gave way with a din as of a thousand cannon, burying beneath their weight the sextoness, the five penitents, the inmates of
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
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But the nutrients of the blood of life spilled in penitence help fortify the Sun to win the battle against the Night.
Mythology and legends of the Nahua people: part 1
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She lived, meanwhile, wholly shut up from all company, consigned to penitence for her indiscretions, to grief for the fate of her sister, and to wasting regret of her own causelessly lost felicity.
Camilla
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In the Catholic tradition, absolution from sin is obtained through confession, in which the penitent confesses to a priest who then absolves the sin and administers penitence.
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Oliver assumed an expression of extreme penitence.
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Such is his infinite penitence and regret that he looks out on the world and the bereaved family through a window of tears.
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Wilful impenitence is the grossest self-murder; and that is a horrible thing, which we should abhor the thought of.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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But God's plan was to teach Israel, by the example of Nineveh, how inexcusable is their own impenitence, and how inevitable their ruin if they persevere.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Carolina -- one of them was a signer of the declaration of Independence and governor of the state. sabre (sa'ber), a sword with a broad, heavy blade, usually curved. sackcloth (sak'kloth '), a garment worn in mourning or penitence. saddle-girth (sad'l-gurth), that which fastens on the saddle. saddletree, frame of a saddle. sage (saj), wise.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4
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The unfortunate plant-cutters, who had merely been imprisoned, and such of them dismissed from time to time as would give assurance of penitence, and promise a peaceable demeanor, were now proceeded against with the utmost rigor, for what the king was pleased to call their treasonable conduct.
Historical collections of Virginia
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Agreeing in some points of his history, they all celebrate his life of penitence, his mortifications, his fastings, his functions of mediator and expiator, the enmity between him and another god, his adversary, their battles, and his ascendency.
The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
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As man," says he, "is illuminated with the grace of the Holy Spirit by the priest that baptizes, so also _he who confesses in penitence receives through the priest_, by the grace of Christ, the remission of sin.
Confession and Absolution
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On the part of sin, there are two things which may withdraw man therefrom: one is the inordinateness and shamefulness of the act, the consideration of which is wont to arouse man to repentance for the sin he has committed, and against this there is "impenitence," not as denoting permanence in sin until death, in which sense it was taken above (for thus it would not be a special sin, but a circumstance of sin), but as denoting the purpose of not repenting.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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There were the pillarists, like Simeon Stylites, who displayed his asceticism, his privations and penitences high above the market place for all eyes to see.
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If they had honestly searched the Scriptures, bringing their theories to the test of God's word, Jesus need not have wept over their impenitence.
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Jonah only threatened wrath and ruin; we do not find that he gave them any calls to repentance or directions how to repent, much less any encouragements to hope that they should find mercy if they did repent, and yet they repented; but Israel persisted in impenitence, though the prophets sent to them drew them with cords of a man, and with bands of love, and assured them of great things which God would do for them if they did repent and reform.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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This, added to his real concern for the physical and spiritual welfare of Valene and Coleman, propels him to take drastic steps to secure their penitence and reformation.
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It's a bit late for penitence, isn't it - from either of us?
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Perseverance is an unmerited gift of grace, just as is also the initial turning of the will to God in faith and penitence.
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Thus the monstrous seizer of antiquity was appropriated as a Christian image of seduction and then of penitence and remorse.
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But now, so uncertain are our tempers, and so much do we at different times differ from ourselves, she would hear of no mitigations; nor could all the affected penitence of Honour, nor all the entreaties of Sophia for her own servant, prevail with her to desist from earnestly desiring her brother to execute justiceship (for it was indeed a syllable more than justice) on the wench.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
