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Meanings of contrite spirit in English

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Usage of contrite spirit in English
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No, it is those that are of a contrite spirit do this.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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The Genevan uses 'a contrite spirit,' and the Bishops 'a mortified spirit.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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Wherefore be not afraid of a broken heart; be not shy of a contrite spirit.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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Why, thus it is with that man that is of a broken and contrite spirit.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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Her contrite spirit is at peace, among the forgiven ones in the world beyond the grave.
The Black Robe
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Can'st thou pardon the error of the patricians in a contrite spirit for thine own sins?
The Bravo: A Tale
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That very love made me give her such evidences of a contrite spirit that I was pardoned.
Vivian Grey
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Another sign of a broken heart, and of a contrite spirit is, it trembleth at God's Word.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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A broken heart, therefore, suiteth with the heart of God; a contrite spirit is one spirit with him.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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This, therefore, I take to be the meaning of these two words, a broken and a contrite spirit.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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But where is the chapter which does not contain something which a broken and contrite spirit may not apply to itself?
Ruth
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And concluded, that the broken-hearted, and they that are of a contrite spirit, shall be saved, that is, possessed of the heavens.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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Doth not therefore this demonstrate, that a broken-hearted man, that a man of a contrite spirit, is of great esteem with God.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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This latter adornment the faculty somehow felt was not properly significant of the contrite spirit befitting a boy under the ban of suspension.
The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories
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But to go to heaven without a broken heart, or to be forgiven sin without a contrite spirit, is no article of my belief.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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Lastly, As to this, I now come more particularly to give you some signs of a broken heart, of a broken and a contrite spirit.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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