How To Use penitence In A Sentence
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Obstinate impenitence is the grossest self-murder. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
- 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
- May they soon come, in penitence, to pledge eternal fealty to the nation. The Curtained Throne
- The reverse also holds, that failure to live morally betrays and invalidates religious devotion unless there is genuine penitence.
- 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
- 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
- Michael shot her a reproving glance, so she covered her mouth in mock penitence. MORE TALES OF THE CITY
