Exempel på penitence

• I will give up my career as an act of penitence.

• She devoted herself to a life of prayer and penitence.

• I expressed suitable penitence for my behaviour.

• All religious punishment hinged on penitence and an avowal of guilt.

• One was that penitence and holiness were not to be bought at the price of asceticism, a position going against the prevailing wisdom.

• She has also done a great service by illuminating the substantial differences in their view on penitence.

• An emergency rota of penitence and pilgrimage was scripted.

• Men and women alike were called to penitence and charity and all were promised the same spiritual benefits.

• Penitence was less frightening to them since they were taught to be confident in the sacrament, and they rejected religious reforms that abolished the source of their consolation.

• The digestive process in the liver is equated with the compunction of the perfecti, which is secondary, coming after penitence, and is directed at venial sins.

• She came boldly up, trusting in forgiveness, and poured out on his head a kind of spikenard76 testifying from the depth of her heart to the intensity of her penitence.

• They were there, we read, in their thousands, their hearts aglow with religious fervour and their eyes red with the tears of penitence.

• I did not regard that evidence of repentance: as invalid because he did not yet commit himself to overall penitence for his misdeeds.

• She might have displayed some semblance of penitence.

• Now comes a time of public accounting, and the sinner is brought to penitence.

• Of course, we do not want her to go about in ashes and tears and in a state of penitence.

• Are we to sit on the stool of penitence and submit to policies with which we do not agree?

• A little more penitence from him might go a long way.