 | Anne Firor Scott - 1992 - 278 pagina’s
...committed, who shall say what has been resisted?" They clinched the argument by quoting the Bible: "There is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons."38 People moving west took the habit of benevolence with them. By 1829 Cincinnati had its... | |
 | 1996 - 96 pagina’s
...Thereafter it will feel and experience great wonders in itself, and. will recognise how true it is that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety-nine just persons, that need no repentance. He who prays aright, worketh inwardly with God,... | |
 | Digital Scanning Inc - 1999 - 278 pagina’s
...application is made by the Saviour in this parable, thus : "Verily, I say unto you, there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance." 57 And now, if the Judge claims the benefit of this parable, let him repent.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1908 - 344 pagina’s
...knew whether he was alive or dead. CHAPTER XXII IT was probably a hard saying to the Pharisees, that " there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance." And certain ingenious philosophers of our own day must surely take offence... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe - 2002 - 442 pagina’s
...happy temperaments have escaped the dangers of life that God and good angels most anxiously watch. "For there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine that went not astray." The hardest work of all is to restore a guilty, selfish, hardened spirit to... | |
 | Nicholas Amhurst - 2004 - 516 pagina’s
...upon the purity of those fountains, may rejoice and be glad in it.* We are assur'd in scripture, that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,...ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance? If the same rule is to be observed upon earth, how great and extraordinary should the national joy... | |
 | Annalise E. Acorn - 2004 - 226 pagina’s
...suffering and take a statistical approach to morality: It was probably a hard saying to the Pharisees, that "there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance." And certain ingenious philosophers of our own day must surely take offence... | |
 | Anthony Kauders - 2004 - 346 pagina’s
...peoples one may surely expect this judgment [blaming the leadership rather than the people — AK], for 'There is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine who needed not repentance'."105 Presumably, the sinner here was the average German who had already... | |
 | Charles Lucas - 2004 - 452 pagina’s
...frowns upon the unhappy connection with Marauder." "Harrety, shall I quote your favourite book?—'There is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety-and-nine just persons that need no repentance.'" 1 "Enough—come on.—'Meus dux est Crux'... | |
 | Lisa Anne Surridge - 2005 - 289 pagina’s
...reading of the parable. The text quotes Luke 15:7: "It was probably a hard saying to the Pharisees, that 'there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance'" {SCL, 301). The joy in heaven, Eliot notes, is "entirely out of correspondence... | |
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there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. 
