How To Use Repent In A Sentence

Emerald's feelings must have shown on her face, for all at once Jeremy was repentant. YELLOW BIRD
I would like weeping with the smile rather than repenting with the cry,when my heart is broken ,is it needed to fix?
But government does not have the freedom to make proposals in haste and repent at leisure. Times, Sunday Times
Occidentali Noruagiæ Insula, quæ Glacialis dicitur, magno circumfusa Oceano repentur, obsoletæ admodum habitationis tellus, A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
I was addressing the issue of whether his deathbed activities that I read about could meaningfully be described as signs of repentance for his proabortion rights stance. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral

Only when I had repented, that is to say, when I had ceased to look upon myself as a regular man, and had begun to regard myself as a man exactly like every one else, -- only then did my path become clear before me. What to Do?
Despite the challenging nature of his work to date, Aronofsky is unrepentant about his plans to enter the mainstream with his next film.
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But since he or his representative maintained for years that his proabortion rights stance is consistent with being a Catholic in good standing, with receiving Holy Communion, leading family prayers, and being visited by priest friends, I can't for the life of me figure out why I should see his doing such things on his deathbed as "signs of repentance" for the manifest grave sin of his proabortion rights stance. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
But the next minute, the little creature whimpering, she bent down in impatient repentance and kissed it, whimpering too. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
Hence their punishment was to be achieved through persuading them to repentance and guilt.
I would like weeping with the smile rather than repenting with the cry,when my heart is broken ,is it needed to fix?
God loves us deeply, intensely, and he cares about even the most incredibly lost and stubbornly unrepentant sheep.
The writing on the wall was clear - never act in haste to repent at leisure.
It looks more like reluctant tactics than true repentance. Times, Sunday Times
Until then, people would publically repent for their sins. The Sun
As an unrepentant internet devotee, I spend a lot of time rootling around cyberspace seeking out the edifying and unusual.
On the basis of our repentance and profession of faith in Christ, God regards us as acceptable and pleasing in His sight.
They showed no repentance during their trial.
The drums often play not so much a beat or a pulse, but lumbering repetitions - just as Eastburn's violin at the start of ‘Repent’ is the weariest sawing I've ever heard.
In the hope that the professor has since repented of such vicious slander, I do not mention the name.
Yes, it is all a bit familiar - but, sadly, nowhere near as delightfully absurd and unrepentantly silly as the Ghostbusters movies.
He was feeling guilty and depressed, repentant and scared.
In 1536, Angela Greca repented her life as a courtesan and became a nun in the convent of the convertite.
Maybe it's not too much to say that our delight also makes us repent of the ways we fail to share our bountiful and abundant food when many are starving.
She repents when she meets him, and moves into the place he is staying, near Msimangu's Mission House.
Repenting there would come across as a cynical cultural cliché, suggesting he expects women to forgive him because he's genuflected to TV's high priestess. Tiger Woods should chat with David Letterman; Corso mum on Heisman
Suicide, Augustine determined, was an unrepentable sin. Suicide
To the extent that Baker and Reynolds actually excised archaic and unrepentant parochialism rooted literally in past centuries of practice that gave rise to existential equal protection problems, sobeit. The Volokh Conspiracy » My Talk at the Constitution in 2020 Conference
Even a hardened criminal may repent if given a second chance.
He's an unrepentant bigot, plus an idiot who knows nothing about football.
The answer to failure and sin is not to move the goalposts but to repent and try again.
It must be noted that the postwar Dutch government, compared with its counterparts in other countries, has done an exemplary job of honestly documenting-and repenting of-its people's wartime collaboration.
A wrong unrepented of and unatoned gathers interest, instead of getting discount, from lost time. Erema
Which is why we must repent our sins and accept him into our lives. In God's Country: travels in the Bible belt, USA.
The literary masterpiece Barrow draws on to illumine the path of conversion and repentance is Dante's Purgatorio.
Shield, overmuch damage hast thou done to us this day, therefore return whither thou wilt, for here are no more will have ado with thee; for we repent sore that ever thou camest here, for by thee is fordone the old custom of this castle. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
We remember that John the Baptist preached a baptism of repentance for the remission of sin.
A partridge, indeed, with a brood of ten behind her, ran forward threateningly, but soon repented of her fierceness, and clucked to her young ones not to be afraid.
But he's no ordinary televangelist, preaching hell and damnation, repentance and Judgement Day.
Repent if there is anything on your conscience and rededicate yourself to the Lord.
First, there's the unrepentantly epicurean philosophy. Times, Sunday Times
* Robert Greene, A groatsworth of Wit bought with a million of repentance. English Literature for Boys and Girls
But, remember, you will have passed the Rubicon, when once you have been shaven: if you repent, and let your beard grow, your mouth will by-and-by show no longer what Messer Angelo calls the divine prerogative of lips, but will appear like a dark cavern fringed with horrent brambles.
Yet both virgin saint and unrepentant sinner must fall within the range of humanity.
That which intimately comprises the nature of repentance is, sorrow on account of sin committed, and of its demerit, which is so much the deeper, as the acknowledgment of sin is clearer, and more copious. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
But, consider, his hope of salvation must be founded on the terms on which it is promised that the mediation of our SAVIOUR shall be applied to us, ” namely, obedience; and where obedience has failed, then, as suppletory to it, repentance. Life of Johnson
So he bore with his injurious usage, saying to himself, Verily insolence and evil-speaking are causes of perdition and cast into confusion, and it is said, ‘The insolent is shent and the ignorant doth repent; and whose feareth, to him safety is sent’: moderation marketh the noble and gentle manners are of gains the grandest. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Everyone is a sinner and God will of course forgive those who truly repent.
The man was convicted in open hearings and remains brazenly unrepentant.
Confession is the first step to repentance.
I would like weeping with the smile rather than repenting with the cry,when my heart is broken ,is it needed to fix?
But the unrepentant musician said he would be prepared to go prison again in the interests of his beliefs.
It was a noteworthy feature of your evidence that you are unrepentant and show not the least sign of contrition, preferring instead to blame everyone else, including the customers and their families and friends.
But he again affirms, in the same chapter, “That the justice of God is twofold: that one kind he always uses when he punishes abandonedly wicked and obstinate sinners, sometimes, according to his law; the other kind, when he punishes sinners neither obstinate nor altogether desperate, but whose repentance is not expected.” A Dissertation on Divine Justice
But government does not have the freedom to make proposals in haste and repent at leisure. Times, Sunday Times
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The Proconsul offers him a last-minute reprieve, however, if he will repent and swear by the genius of Caesar.
The hand of the soldier and the two hands of the servant signify the three-fold accusation and denial; the infolded hands of Peter tellingly express both denial and repentance.
‘We read’, he says, in the books both in the Old Law and in the New that the men who repented of their sins bestrewed themselves with ashes and clothed their bodies with sackcloth.
Within the week I had repented of what I termed my idiotic quixotism, and for precisely nine days after that I cursed my folly. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
Then, assured that the company had repented of their evil deeds and intentions, he granted his full, sovereign forgiveness to all.
See, Phil Sheridan had a really effective way to deal with the unrepentant slavocrat fucks in the South: Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
A little deliberation shows that this is the very essence of repentance and it is known that repentance cleanses a person.
November 3rd, 2008 12: 34am gee but the fact Mccain is a good friend on unrepentant fellon and terrorist GGordon Liddy doesnt mean anything to Ms Phillips? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
I'll be forced to repent some day for her sake, though there sudna be anither woman atween Venus and Mars but wad rive wi 'lauchin at a word frae Cosmo Cupples. Alec Forbes of Howglen
The great thing Christ eyes in penitents is their eyeing him in their repentance. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Like any real therapy, if one works hard at it, healing moves forward by circling backward, Repentance, turning, is a backstitch.
He's an unrepentant bigot, plus an idiot who knows nothing about football.
The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age.
Marry in lent, and you’ll live to repent.
She was not in the least repentant.
Then she came wriggling back, with repentant doleful eyes starting upward and a knife behind her back.
It is an urgent call to remain steadfast despite suffering, to repent of complacency and compromise, to move from lukewarmness and the middle of the road to heated commitment, and from disillusionment and despair to confidence and hope.
Picture a Julius Caesar recovered from his murderous assault to confront a repentant Brutus, who must painfully work out the consequences of his actions.
Considering the signs he showed of genuine repentance, we shall deal leniently with him.
Rejoined the wolf, I have no faith in thy word, for sages have said, ‘Whoso practiseth trust in the place of hate, erreth;’ and, ‘Whoso trusteth in the untrustworthy is a dupe; he who re-trieth him who hath been tried shall reap repentance and his days shall go waste; and he who cannot distinguish between case and case, giving each its due, and assigneth all the weight to one side, his luck shall be little and his miseries shall be many.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
A sinner who has begun to repent is surely in a better moral position than one who continues flagrantly to offend, is he not? The EU Python Constricts All
I ought not to lose an opportunity of refuting an absurd story which has been much circulated, and which is repeated exceedingly malapropos under the article of the “Abbé Gedoyn,” upon whom the writer falls foul with great satisfaction, because in his youth he had been a Jesuit; a transient weakness, of which I know he repented all his life. A Philosophical Dictionary
In their corrupt and shadowy pursuit of what they consider to be evil, they themselves become more insidiously black-hearted than the repentant sinner they pursue.
Cut through the politically correct hedging and you find that what the council really wants is an unregistered dosshouse for habitual and unrepentant drunks and dropouts who are likely to be violent and don't want to be helped.
The community had to see, in public weeping, prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, clear symbols of repentance so that the reclamation of the individual could be entire.
Then they saw the need of delay, before completely punishing the wicked, to give space for repentance, or else for accumulation of wrath (Ro 2: 15); and before completely rewarding the godly, to give room for faith and perseverance in tribulation (Ps 92: 7-12). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Even today, Heloise has the ability to shock in her unrepentant rejection of social mores, renunciation of morality, and belief in the primacy of sexual and spiritual love and its integration with her religion.
Frankly, I'm more inclined to find the former more contrived, since a remorseless thug and repenting Christian is a believable dyad.
And meantime he had to face another two hours or so of Gori's being ostentatiously repentant. PROSECUTOR
God reprobated the unrepenting sinner
On to other hand, to include Gingrich in any category besides unrepentant serial adulterer is not right. The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
Marry in lent, and you’ll live to repent.
She tried to ignore how adorable he looked, all contrite and repentant.
Pretending now to repent him of his former practice, and carrying himself with more remissness, he became acceptable to such as pillaged the treasury, by not detecting or calling them to an exact account. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
But now such as justly deserve the names of complacencies and joys are wholly refined from their contraries, and are immixed with neither vexation, remorse, nor repentance; and their good is congenial to the mind and truly mental and genuine, and not superinduced. Essays and Miscellanies
After prayers of repentance, there will be time for indi-vidual confession, then we will celebrate the Holy Mystery of Anointing with Holy Oil for healing. Archive 2008-03-16
But Royal Mail chiefs remained unrepentant, insisting its other services would meet the needs of businesses.
As prostitute par excellence, the example of the Magdalen could be called upon to reveal the way forward for women needing to seek repentance from sexual misconduct (the theme so searingly explored in the movie of the Irish magdalens).
As he was going to the place of execution, he still looked graver and mote concerned; though he did not fall into those agonies of sighing and tears as some do, but seemed to bear his miserable state with great composedness and resignation, saying he had repented as well as he could in the short time allowed him, suffering the same day with the two last mentioned malefactors. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
To play with important truths, to disturb the repose of established tenets, to subtilize objections, and elude proof, is too often the sport of youthful vanity, of which maturer experience commonly repents. Christian Morals
Depend on others and you always repent.
Pr*ythee, peace: — Pay her the debt you owe her, and unpay the villainy you have done with her; the one you may do with ilerling money, and the other with current repentance. The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of ...
Depend on others and you always repent.
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He is brimming with unused love, a passion for justice, a need to repent that surpasses what the law ordained.
And despite their sharp suits today, they remain unrepentant about the outlandish clothes they wore back in their early twenties. The Sun
Before completing its time, though, it opts unrepentantly for horrific grindhouse violence. Times, Sunday Times
By the time he was 25, he was square-jawed and steely-eyed, full of unrepentant rage and muscle. Globe and Mail
Besides these fears, she considered that Vivian was the possessor of a large fortune; that his mother had with difficulty consented to this match; that he was very young, had seen but little of the world, and might, perhaps, in future, repent of having made, thus early in life, a _love match_. Tales and Novels — Volume 05
An unrepentant classic from a master technician who's been writing songs since the Fifties and still seems at the top of his game.
Marry too soon, and you’ll repent too late.
When the Confederate armies are scattered; when their leaders are banished from power; when the people return to a late repentant sense of the wrong they have done to a government they never felt but in benignancy and blessing, then the Constitution made for all will be felt by all, like the descending rains from heaven which bless all alike. His Reply to Breckenridge
By uttering such sentiments, he turns away from all that he has learned through his many years of suffering and grief and loss; thus, Victor dies unrepentant, unredeemed.
Do repent to Allah for your sins and supplicate with raised hands at the times of prayer as these are the best times, during which Allah Al-Mighty looks at His servants with mercy.
People have often repented of the sales they have made, but that had no place in court, he said.
Repentance must come every day as soon as you have acknowledged that you have done something wrong, and not after you spend two whole months in carnality and ungodliness.
But we are a sinful people, and so we are given an escape from our own sin tendencies through the holy Spirit – and forgiveness through our repentance and faith in the atoning blood of Christ. The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
What we have in common is that we enjoy being in the sex-trade: we are unrepentant hookers and we are not going to change.
God (saith [6779] Fulgentius) is delighted in the conversion of a sinner, he sets no time; prolixitas temporis Deo non praejudicat, aut gravitas peccati, deferring of time or grievousness of sin, do not prejudicate his grace, things past and to come are all one to Him, as present: 'tis never too late to repent. Anatomy of Melancholy
Confronting sin, Arthur struggles against the conflict of humanity and godhood, and finally comes to confess his sin and repent in the call of God's grace, hence attaining atonement in his death.
Hundreds of disgusted fans branded him cruel, but the unrepentant star insisted it was no different to eating rabbit. The Sun
And so the scene being thus laid, the man goes on, and upon these terms complies with the temptation, and commits the sin; and God, perhaps, in his just judgment, never gives him grace to repent of it. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
I really ought to hope that the murderous pair repented before they died.
Shouldn't God judge man after he has repented, after there has been atonement for his sins?
She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the jeweller quitted his wife, he repented having bespoken her thus and, returning to his shop, he sat there in disquiet sore and anxiety galore, between belief and unbelief. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But government does not have the freedom to make proposals in haste and repent at leisure. Times, Sunday Times
It is reasonable to assume that Lucrezia Scanatoria had repented her former life of sin before she died.
Miss Macleod added that her expiring brother said that he had always repented of his actions.
We must accompany our people from a place of guilt to absolution, fear to repentance, shame to sacrifice.
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Apparently her lack of repentance only made me angrier.
The punishment for such a violation is to be banned from performing any priestly function until the uncanonical act is expunged through repentance.
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
Thus far of the first part of repentance, which is penitency. The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.
But when key elements like repent are not there, there is something more serious afoot. Times, Sunday Times
Impunity hardens sinners in impiety, and the patience of God is shamefully abused by many who, instead of being led by it to repentance, are confirmed by it in their impenitence. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Metelli primos suos praetergressum videt, praesidio quasi duum milium peditum montem occupat, qua Metellus descenderat, ne forte cedentibus adversariis receptui ac post munimento foret; dein repente signo dato hostes invadit. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
The bombers died carrying out their evil deeds and are unable to repent. The Sun
But if you were free to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl – you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow? A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 2 The First of the Three Spirits | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
It involves metanoia, which we translate as repentance - a complete change of direction.
I have to repent for judging the size of my thighs and nose and lips and the unruly hair. Christianity Today
He repents his ways and gives the impoverished Cratchit a large pay increase, followed by significant donations to charity.
It may include feelings of guilt or profanation, at times engendering a twinge-or surge-of regret, an impulse to repent.
SAVIOUR shall be applied to us, -- namely, obedience; and where obedience has failed, then, as suppletory to it, repentance. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780
Now either repent from the error of your ways, or accept your position of a radical, extremist crank pushing far-out, discredited ideas. Matthew Yglesias » Bush As Crank
A person on his or her face has surrendered their persona or ego identity in repentance or in petition or in adorational worship of that which is greater, be it to a person in fealty or to God as devotional prayer. Hogwarts Professor
It seems to me more likely, that this is a genuine act of repentance by the Pope of behalf of his Church; in light of their recent buffoonery, manic secularists will probably remain unappeased. 2010 April « Anglican Samizdat
Marry too soon, and you’ll repent too late.
Myrrh has been associated with bitter repentance , mortification of the flesh, and penance.
Pamela was unrepentant about her strong language and abrasive remarks.
Usually her repentance came quickly after one rash deed, but now Tom and Lucy had made her so miserable, she was glad to spoil their happiness, glad to make everybody uncomfortable. X. Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected. Book I—Boy and Girl
The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age.
Sin could be repented of by an act of volition; failure could not be disposed of so easily.
It requested the President to appoint a day for humiliation and prayer and to ask the people to convene at their usual places of worship in order that they may confess and repent of their manifold sins, implore the compassion and forgiveness of the Almighty, that, if consistent with his will the existing rebellion may be speedily suppressed and implore him as the supreme ruler of the world not to destroy us as a people. Chapter X
And didn't it give you a warm glow to watch the new, improved Power of Three square up to the unconquered, unrepentant and increasingly unhinged Cole?
But the eternal hippy chick was unrepentant, arguing that her ethical considerations had become the big business norm. Times, Sunday Times
Historically, the Forerunner John -- that famous wild man who lived on nuts and wild honey, and dressed in camel hair -- was in the habit of calling errant Jews to repentance, and a good many of them were pleased to receive his words. Scott Cairns: Holy Theophany: The Baptism Of Jesus And The Blessing Of The Waters
And the not-so-good people (to their credit, Taylor and Molony are careful to make no characters unrepentantly evil) are conniving, craven and corruptible.
But Downing Street remains unrepentant about the tone of the intervention. The Sun
Elijah was a man of great austerity and mortification, zealous for God, bold in reproving sin, and active to reduce an apostate people to God and their duty; John Baptist was animated by the same spirit and power, and preached repentance and reformation, as Elias had done; and all held him for a prophet, as they did Elijah in his day, and that his baptism was from heaven, and not of men. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Some persons do first, think afterwards, and then repent for ever.
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Jesus' invitation spoken from outside their doors is a request for fellowship with any individual, who will repent of and overcome the spiritual lukewarmness of their lives.
The girl is apparently unrepentant, and is now ‘punishing’ the school by withdrawing her presence.
The wrathful Commendatore himself towered above his unrepentant victim with the flames of Hell around him. TO HIS JUST DESSERTS
The Greek word for repentance is metanoia (from meta, ‘after’, and nous, ‘mind’).
Ted has become an unrepentant philanderer, using the façade of his artwork to lure women into posing for his impressionistic and erotic illustrations.
I would like weeping with the smile rather than repenting with the cry,when my heart is broken ,is it needed to fix?
Cabana remains unrepentant for his role in supplying American security officials with information on Arar, without securing protective assurances. Archive 2009-11-01
In vignettes centering on a fiery local waitress, a seventh-generation fisherman, the doyenne of a fading lesbian power culture, an unrepentant jinx, and other characters for whom the term colorful does scant justice, he introduces a community bound by tradition, superstition, recalcitrance, and a profound, more visceral than affectionate love for the sea. Undefined
Two types of forgiveness may thus be distinguished: conditional ( "calculable" forgiveness following an act of repentance in which the guilty party promises never to engage in what is demanded by forgiveness) andunconditional (forgiving the unforgivable without conditions, a forgiveness which is incalculable and therefore impossible). Jacques Derrida, 9/11, And The Democracy Which is Yet to Come
Think of foot washing this way: just as we wear ashes on our heads to produce repentance on Ash Wednesday, so we wash feet on Maundy Thursday to inspire humility and service.
A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.
And some may think they can later repent and be shriven, and God will forgive them. The Tudors: King Takes Queen
He was not unrepentant to the end, as some people have said.
would like weeping with the smile rather than repenting with the cry.
Even his defiant courage is an in-character refusal to repent or seek redemption.
He then preached against their pantheistic idolatries and urged them to repent.
The revelation of this book is from Allah, exalted in power, full of knowledge, who forgives sin, accepts repentance, is strict in punishment, and has a long reach in all things.
As in the scripture, the innocent Job must repent in order to be saved.
And yesterday he was unrepentant. The Sun
There is much admiring of young legal eagles, studying of wizened magistrates and cowering from unrepentant defendants to be done.
He should repent and exorcise the institutional bias of his department.
He was feeling guilty and depressed, repentant and scared.
To sin in haste and repent at leisure is not a privilege available to the public servant. At long last, it's recall day (Jack Bog's Blog)
If he sees, for example, that a wrongdoer has genuinely repented and that no good would come of forcing the miscreant to do jail time, he'll suspend his sentence.
The preacher told him that a man had to believe that Christ was this sacrifice for his sins, and to repent and ask God to save his soul.
Count Octave, having quitted her husband for another, has repented of her fault and separated from her lover, but, through shamefastness, will not return to her husband. Balzac
After Paul addressed the religious zeal of his audience, he concluded his talk with these words, “The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead” (Acts 17. 30-31). Archive 2009-06-01
Sounds like you're repenting your new habit.
The fiction of a tardy repentance absolved the fame and the soul of her deceased husband; the sentence of the Iconoclast patriarch was commuted from the loss of his eyes to a whipping of two hundred lashes: the bishops trembled, the monks shouted, and the festival of orthodoxy preserves the annual memory of the triumph of the images. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
You would assuredly repent of your temerity," said the obstinate contagionist. Rattlin the Reefer
However, because he still possesses his crown, his queen, and his ambition, the guilt-ridden murderer knows that his repentance is insincere.
Midas soon repented of his wish because he could not even eat because the bread he tried to put in his mouth became gold.
Confronting sin, Arthur struggles against the conflict of humanity and godhood, and finally comes to confess his sin and repent in the call of God's grace, hence attaining atonement in his death.
The fact that Ehrman only mentions fear of Hell when talking about his conversion is as telling as what he doesn't mention: namely repentance of sin, and the love of Christ. Blind Faith?
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure.
In those days, people walked around in sackcloth and ashes, when they were in mourning, fasting, or in a state of repentance. Sackcloth and Ashes
It is impossible to bring them back to repent again, because they are again crucifying the Son of God and exposing him to public shame. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Another AppSlappy is up!
'Our hearts are so deceitful in the matter of repentance, 'says Jeremy Taylor,' that the masters of the spiritual life are fain to invent suppletory arts and stratagems to secure the duty. ' Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
Afterwardes they entred into the churche with great deuotion, where when the Duchesse had made certaine particuler praiers, shee began to perceiue that God had withstanded her lasciuious wil, and pitying the good Duke her husband, would not permit him to be deceiued in suche disloyal sort, repentantly bewayling her forepassed faulte. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
His election victory shattered myths about America and caused some discomfort among Africa's gang of "hippos" - the nasty, ornery and unrepentant hard-knocks. George Ayittey: Obama's Victory Shames Africa
The wrathful Commendatore himself towered above his unrepentant victim with the flames of Hell around him. TO HIS JUST DESSERTS

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