Word: sinners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sinners need not hang back, says the Cloud: "No man needs to think that he is presumptuous in daring to offer himself to God as a contemplative even though he has been the worst kind of a sinner in this life. He may offer to God the meek longing love of his heart and in secret set himself to beat on this Cloud of Unknowing. . . . Our Lord said to Mary [Magdalene], a sinner above all sinners . . . 'Thy sins be forgiven thee.' He said this not because of her deep contrition for her sins, nor because she knew...
...decided not to go through with its proposed issue of 1.5 million more shares of stock (TIME, Jan. 19). K-F was scared off by the poor market for new issues. Two days later, Henry & Joe were honored by initiation into Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners Club. Sinner Joe chased Saint Henry around with a fork until he agreed to buy a Frazer...
...play a tuba or beat a drum, but what he really wants is someone who can toss that shiny metal shaft around--two, if possible. "We have never marched on the field without a baton twirler to toss his baton over the goal posts," Sinner declared...
...Almost Always." More important than the confession itself is the contrition of the penitent; an ounce of true repentance is worth a pound of remorse. Cut for the habitual minor sinner. Father Wilson has a counsel of moderation: merely resolve to cut down on the sinning, don't make an impossible vow to cut it out entirely. He cites a realistic five-year-old penitent who resolved: "I will be a little better than before, I will hardly ever get angry ... or be rude ... I will almost always do my English lesson well...
...Life of a Great Sinner was the title that Dostoevsky gave to a vast novel for which he made reams of notes but which he never managed to write. Instead, members of A Great Sinner's huge projected cast of characters kept escaping prematurely from their creator's notebooks and showing up in his completed works. Some of them became prominent people in The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov; a few (including the Great Sinner himself, in his young manhood) became part of A Raw Youth, least known of Dostoevsky's major novels. Published first...