Word: sinner
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...journeys to the end of the night finds day, so Cust in his single-minded pursuit of evil finds his soul, and in that soul a damning consciousness of his own sin. Just as the world, symbolized by the court, cannot cleanse itself, being innately corrupt, so Cust the sinner cannot save himself. He needs to be redeemed by innocent blood and forgiven through the gratuitous gift of love to the totally unworthy. Elena, the symbol of this grace, performs the dual function of awakening in Cust a conviction of sin and the possibility of salvation...
Savata, soundly scouted by her dark sister as "a good sinner," moves from being "infernal, lewd and magnificent" to become a certified bishop in the Church Zealous. She rises to a bishopric of her own in the LOWWHAC (The Light of the World Holiness Church), where she dispenses charm, holiness, sex and success...
...Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Charlie Mingus; Impulse). Bassist Mingus working beyond the reach of censure on his own Dadaist compositions...
...routine of works, confession, penance or asceticism could mitigate his spiritual anxiety. But seated one day in the study of the monastery, as he later related, Luther suddenly gained an insight into what St. Paul meant by the just living by faith. Luther interpreted Paul to mean that the sinner was justified only by a gift of God's grace, which came solely through faith in Christ's redemptive act of dying on the Cross. Because of man's unworthiness, good works could not affect God's favoring glance; they were simply "the fruits of faith...
...could not have explored its unanswered moral questions with the subtlety it does without a performer like Paul Newman in the title role. It's easy to condemn sin: but it's not so easy to condemn the concrete, complex individual sinner. Newman makes Hud a man of charm and magnetism, a man difficult to dislike. Hud trades shamelessly on his personal attractiveness, but his shamelessness is a characteristic of his society as well as himself. Newman is letter-perfect, from his insolent walk to the mock-tough way he propositions the Bannon family maid. Even when Hud is silent...