Word: sinner
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...Saint & Sinner...
...hands to the divine majesty? For I am dust and ashes and full of sin, and I am speaking to the living, eternal and true God.' " No amount of penance, no soothing advice from his superiors could still Luther's conviction that he was a miserable, doomed sinner. Although his confessor counseled him to love God, Luther one day burst out, "I do not love God! I hate...
...salva tion, and the remission of temporal punishment for sin, by good works. Central to this thinking was the church's system of indulgences. In exchange for a meritorious work-frequently, contributing to a worthy cause or making a pilgrimage to a shrine-the church would dispense a sinner from his temporal punishment through its "treasury of merits." This consisted of the grace accumulated by Christ's sacrifice on the cross and the good deeds of the saints...
...called for in the strip. This distorts his relation to Bill, a man in his twenties who rose from the lower classes by Harry's grace. The last member of the company, Sheila Hart, does an adequate job with the relatively small part of Stella, the maybe-sinner...
...clergyman can give counsel to the worst sinner, but when a lawyer gives counsel to someone who has had the condemnation of society, people say it's scocking," he adds. And he believes that the attorney should "exploit the law to the fullest benefit of his client" -- within the limits of integrity and the facts...