Heaven grant she may hereafter; and this sudden penitence prove no sham.
His remorse, and shame, and penitence made him willing to embrace the lot of the lowest of them all.
This, though it was penitence too late, was at least decorous language.
When a man has done violence to his own best impulses, the thing that comes nearest to the holy joy of penitence is the unholy joy of making somebody else sorry for him.
We have a warrant for your apprehension and appearance which we might, unless moved by penitence and dutiful submission, put in force.
His particular declarative act in blotting out sin depends upon the existence of penitence for sin.
The graces of humility, self-abasement before God, and especially of penitence for sin, are distasteful and loathed.
It is to be observed, however, that all these external forms were necessarily accompanied with true penitence and religious devotion.
And in the quiet of the city the boy Mohammed, like a sobered man shuddering at dangers braved when drunk, hearkened with discomposure and penitence to his friend's words.
Light, and pardon our Sins, and accept Penitence for our Offences, and cause us to die among the Holy!
We can, perhaps, take hands and watch its corpse patiently together and say how sorry we are it is dead--such penitence comes always too late!
Arguing thus, Alfred had not allowed her to say a word to him about that escapade with the stock-whip on the first morning, for her penitence was grievous to him--and was it a thing in the least likely to happen twice?
What penitence Gladys had expressed had been lame--crippled by an excuse.
Years passed on, and the people had long become accustomed to the Norman yoke, when there was much talk among them of a hermit, who dwelt in a cell not far from the town, in the utmost penitence and humility.
Since that time he had been living inpenitence and contrition, unknown to and apart from the world, and died at length, trusting that his forty years' repentance might be accepted.
And the Barons were forced to content themselves with receiving a free pardon after they had come to profess their penitence on their knees before the King enthroned in Westminster Hall.
Carmen showed her faith in his penitenceby marrying him, and he took honest care that she should never repent her generosity.
Through penitence we become absolved in the sight of God from all guilt and punishment of our sins, and the minister, by announcing this fact, is to convey to the penitent the assurance that his sins have been forgiven.
The Christian's penitence embraces as a constituent element faith in the forgiveness of sin for Christ's sake.
More will I doe: Though all that I can doe, is nothing worth; Since that my Penitence comes after all, Imploring pardon.
He thought of his old master as he knew him first, and his heart was softened towards the dead man's memory; and from that time his penitence began.
No repentance was ever more sincere, Clement,' she said, for she seemed afraid we should doubt the possibility of penitence in such a criminal as Joseph Wilmot.
But for the wretch himself, surely long years of penitence must make a better expiation of his guilt than that one short agony--those few spasmodic throes, which render his death such a pleasant spectacle for a sight-seeing populace.
Repent, and we will laugh at your penitence as a shallow deception.
Confession would better become you, and repentance, and public penitence before the church, for the public scandal you have brought on it.
The judge who had condemned the first criminal executed on this charge, was so smitten with sorrow and humiliation at his folly, that he set apart the anniversary of that day as one of solemn penitence and fasting.
The whole colony shared the feeling; the jurors on the different trials openly expressed their penitence in the churches; and those who had suffered were regarded as the victims, and not the accomplices of Satan.
This salutary advice she never could enforce on the Queen's mind, though she had to that effect been importuned by upwards of two hundred persona, all zealous to show their penitence for former errors by their present devotedness.
That decision cost her abundant grief and penitence in the months to come.
And her sister's happiness, forethought, and desire to please, all drove the thrust of penitence to the hilt, and turned the knife in that secret wound.
It was as much as to say that he, Richard, was making his peace with the principal by pretending a penitence he did not feel.
From a prudential penitence he had arrived at a genuine one.
Over against the denial or evasion of moral values by the naturalist and the dullness to the sense of moral helplessness by the humanist, there stands the sense of moral difference, the sense of sin, of penitence and confession.
We have seen how he needs that "otherness" in God to maintain his personality and how the gulf between him and that God induces that sense of helplessness which makes the humility and penitence of the religious life.
Is it to the penitence and confession, the public-mindedness, the identification of the fate of the individual with the fate of the whole group which is the religious impulse?
