 | Annalise E. Acorn - Education - 2004 - 226 pages
...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 - History - 2004 - 346 pages
...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 - Fiction - 2004 - 452 pages
...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 - Abused women in literature - 2005 - 289 pages
...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. 
