How To Use Repentance In A Sentence

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
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.
It looks more like reluctant tactics than true repentance. Times, Sunday Times

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 literary masterpiece Barrow draws on to illumine the path of conversion and repentance is Dante's Purgatorio.
We remember that John the Baptist preached a baptism of repentance for the remission of sin.
But he's no ordinary televangelist, preaching hell and damnation, repentance and Judgement Day.
* Robert Greene, A groatsworth of Wit bought with a million of repentance. English Literature for Boys and Girls
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
Confession is the first step to repentance.
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
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.
A little deliberation shows that this is the very essence of repentance and it is known that repentance cleanses a person.
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.
The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age.
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
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
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
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).
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 ...
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
We must accompany our people from a place of guilt to absolution, fear to repentance, shame to sacrifice.
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.
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)
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.
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
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
Myrrh has been associated with bitter repentance , mortification of the flesh, and penance.
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.
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
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)
The Greek word for repentance is metanoia (from meta, ‘after’, and nous, ‘mind’).
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.
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.
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
However, because he still possesses his crown, his queen, and his ambition, the guilt-ridden murderer knows that his repentance is insincere.
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?
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
'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)
O Lord, ef I could kneel down hyar and say I repented with godly repentance fer sin and determination never to sin agen, I'd do it, and ask you to pardon me for Jesus 'sake, but I kain't repent -- I jes' kain't! Elder Conklin
Such repentance takes place when the external proffer of grace concurs with inward assistance of grace.
It hushes the infant to its slumbers in the cradle with a song whose theme is the babe of Bethlehem; it allures the child to virtue by the example of Josiah, Timothy, and Samuel; it warns the wayward youth, and reproves the erring man, and calls the hoary sinner to repentance. Characteristics of the Bible. A Sermon Preached before the Bible Convention of South Carolina, in the Washington Street Methodist Church, Columbia, September 15, 1862
The second time around, she fulfilled her desire to anoint His head as well, this time not as an act of repentance, but as an act of love and prophetic insight.
The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age.
Any attempt to escape will fail, and repentance may give you a shorter time of imprisonment.
Now we delight in our supposed freedom to baptize without catechizing, and to receive communicants without repentance.
Now in repentance this uncircumcised heart was humbled, that is, it was truly broken and contrite for sin. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
My Adversary himself, now drawing to a conclusion, seems to be inclining to good opinions: and as dying men, are much given to repentance, so finding his cause at the last gasp, he unburthens his Conscience and disclaims the principles of a Common-wealth, both for himself, and for both Houses of Parliament, which is indeed to be over-officious: for one of the Houses will not think they have need of such a Compurgator. His Majesties Declaration Defended
Repentance is called crucifying the flesh (Gal. 5: 24), which is not done on a sudden, but leisurely; it will be doing all our life. Provocations & Pantings
Rejecting therefore the good, and as it were spuing it out, they shall all deservedly incur the just judgment of God, which also the Apostle Paul testifies in his Epistle to the Romans, where he says, "But dost thou despise the riches of His goodness, and patience, and long-suffering, being ignorant that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
But she protested she would not be accessary to so much after-repentance; and left her. Camilla
True repentance is necessarily a difficult process. Christianity Today
For they said, that whereas the land wherein we live is filled with sin, and various indications of God's displeasure thereon, yet there is an unexemplified neglect in calling the inhabitants of it unto repentance, for the diverting of impendent judgments. The Sermons of John Owen
The Greek word for repentance is metanoia (from meta, ‘after’, and nous, ‘mind’).
_repentance; _ a repentance, namely, that reaches to the sending away, or abjurement of sins. Hope of the Gospel
Its sufficiency consists in this -- both that it demonstrates the necessity of that duty which is to be performed by sinful man, to be completely absolute, and on no account to be remissible, by which the way is closed against carnal security -- and that it most strongly fortifies against despair, not only sinners, that they may be led to repentance, but also those who perform the duty, that they may, through the certain hope of future blessings, persevere in the course of faith and of good works upon which they have entered. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
Anger begins with folly, and ends in repentance.
From short pleasure long repentance.
The ruling principle is that fear of sin precedes love of God, which leads to repentance (contrition).
The monastery, that is to say, is a place of continual repentance, of constantly renewed conversion.
On the part of sin, there are two things which may withdraw man therefrom: one is the inordinateness and shamefulness of the act, the consideration of which is wont to arouse man to repentance for the sin he has committed, and against this there is "impenitence," not as denoting permanence in sin until death, in which sense it was taken above (for thus it would not be a special sin, but a circumstance of sin), but as denoting the purpose of not repenting. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
I want carnage, I want blood, I want screaming in the cathedrals; I want begging and repentance and the look on your face when you realise that I'm not budging an inch.
Lincoln regularly used the language of scripture, but in a way that called both sides in the Civil War to contrition and repentance.
Thus, even Dryden's repeated disclamation of puns, points, and quibbles, and all the repentance of his more sober hours, was unable, so soon as he began to translate Ovid, to prevent his sliding back into the practice of that false wit with which his earlier productions are imbued. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
But like the former, the latter preference is no mere velleity; it is a firm orientation of the will that requires, among other things, repentance. Archive 2007-08-01
purification through repentance
The only alternative to prooftexting is reading with a view to what the New Testament calls metanoia, repentance-literally, ‘change of mind.’
Jonah only threatened wrath and ruin; we do not find that he gave them any calls to repentance or directions how to repent, much less any encouragements to hope that they should find mercy if they did repent, and yet they repented; but Israel persisted in impenitence, though the prophets sent to them drew them with cords of a man, and with bands of love, and assured them of great things which God would do for them if they did repent and reform. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
1259 For catechumens who die before their Baptism, their explicit desire to receive it, together with repentance for their sins, and charity, assures them the salvation that they were not able to receive through the sacrament.
However, it has so far opened the Eyes of my Understanding, as to know that nothing but a sincere Repentance will attone for my Transgressions. The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
That which, in the next place, we are to speak unto is, "The equity of this divine constitution, -- that, in the ordinary way of God's rule and dispensation of his providence, repentance and reformation shall turn away impendent judgments, and procure unto a people a blessed deliverance; and nothing else shall do it:" "Except ye repent, ye shall perish. The Sermons of John Owen
blowzy" we were moved for a few moments to an honest self-scrutiny and repentance. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
Pay her the debt you owe her, and unpay the villany you have done her: the one you may do with sterling money, and the other with current repentance. The second part of King Henry the Fourth
The man who made a best seller out of a defamatory rant now wants to make a best seller out of repentance.
True repentance will be accepted in the spirit given.
I shall say, he that can take a prospect of the eternally miserable condition of multitudes among whom we live, and the approaching miseries which, without repentance and reformation, will not be avoided, and not spend some tears on them, hath a heart like a flint or adamant, that is capable of no impression. The Sermons of John Owen
Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without Church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without contrition.
She was soon convinced that his repentance was genuine. Times, Sunday Times
Their concerns were heightened by Chinese rhetoric that they must show true repentance and remold their thinking.
But all presently concentred in one domineering sentiment of sharp repentance for what she had apparently undertaken. Camilla
After the term appointed for its pretended destruction was elapsed, they sent scouts to the city, which they had left quite empty, and, hearing that it was still standing, returned to it, and with their fears forgot their repentance and all their good resolutions. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
This was an extremely violent crime, for which the boy showed no repentance.
Some fear it was a cry, not of true repentance, but of bitter complaint; their heart was as full of grief as it could hold, and they gave vent to it in doleful shrieks and outcries, in which they made use of God's name; yet we will charitably suppose that many of them did in sincerity cry unto God for mercy in their distress; and the prophet bids them go on to do so: O wall of the daughter of Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
There was an expression of extreme repentance, sorrow and guilt upon his open face.
No means should be used to bring them to repentance (v. 17): Ephraim is joined to idols, is in love with them and addicted to them, and therefore let him alone, as v. 4, Let no man reprove him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Otherwise I have no repentance -- I am joueur -- nature has made me so, as she made my brother devot. The Newcomes
Execution Mr. Thompson Minister at Brantry, [371] and J.P. [372] her former Master took pains with her to bring her to repentance, And she utterly denyed her guilt of Witchcraft: yet justifyed God for bringing her to that punishment: for she had when a single woman played the harlot, and being with Child used means to destroy the fruit of her body to conceal her sin and shame, and although she did not effect it, yet she was a Murderer in the sight of God for her endeavours, and shewed great penitency for that sin; but owned nothing of the crime laid to her charge. A Modest Inquiry Into The Nature Of Witchcraft, By John Hale, 1702 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706
He was like a penitent man who was fighting for repentance to some grave sin he had committed.
In like manner the late penitent, like the late paymaster, though by such a repentance he may secure himself from the final arrests of damnation, yet still it is something sordid and degenerous. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
Soul Bigger" focuses on the Jewish New Year's themes of teshuva (repentance), tefillah (prayer) and tzeddakah (charity). Jewish 'Gold Digger' Spoof: Rosh Hashana Makes The Soul Bigger? (VIDEO)
Marked by the blowing of a ram horn known as the shofar in Hebrew, the holiday begins a 10-day period of repentance and reflection that ends with Yom Kippur, the day of atonement that is considered the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. PhillyClout
As for Win Jenkins, she has undergone a perfect metamurphysis, and is become a new creeter from the ammunition of Humphry Clinker, our new footman, a pious young man, who has laboured exceedingly, that she may bring forth fruits of repentance. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking repentance.
The unrepentance is rather admirable. Times, Sunday Times
However pleasant it may be to the palate while we are feeding on it, it is sure to leave a bitter relish behind it; and so far, indeed, it may be called a luscious morsel, that the most greedy appetites are soon glutted, and the most eager longing for it is soon turned into loathing and repentance. Amelia — Complete
Every act of humility, repentance, or honor ascends to heaven and unlocks even more grace from God.
God move thair heartis to repentance! for ellis we fear that He whose caus we susteane sall lett thame feill the weght of the yock of crewell strangearis, in whose handis thei wisshed us to have bene betrayed. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
Noted by the French ambassador in the United States for their moderate behavior and sincere expressions of repentance, all the Grouchys were amnestied in 1819 and returned to France the following year.
The essential content of this manifestation (besides the revelation and the verification of the oneness and spirituality of God), [154] is, first of all, the message of the resurrection and eternal life ([Greek: anastasis zôê aiônios]), then the preaching of moral purity and continence ([Greek: enkrateia]), on the basis of repentance toward God History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
And however poets may employ their wit and eloquence, in celebrating present pleasure, and rejecting all distant views to fame, health, or fortune; it is obvious, that this practice is the source of all dissoluteness and disorder, repentance and misery. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
Keith David, an imposing figure, does well by Leontes's rant but not by his regality, racked psyche, or repentance.
A baptism of repentance is appropriate for sinners, but not for Jesus.
And, before Christ by his graces and comforts comes to any for salvation, preparation is made for him by repentance, which is called the preparation of the gospel of peace, Eph. vi. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
As for Cursecowl, the invincible reprobate, so ashamed was he of his infamous conduct, that he did not dare, for the life in his body, to show himself before my shop-window -- far less in my presence -- for more than a week; yet, would ye believe it! he made a perfect farce of the whole business among his own wauf cronies; and, instead of repentance, I verily believe, would not have cared twopence to have played me the same pliskie that he did my douce and worthy friend. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
Confession is the first step to repentance.
From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking repentance.
But at the reconings ende what pleasures are they? pleasures full of vice which hold him still in a restles feauer: pleasures subiect to repentance, like sweete meates of hard disgestion: pleasures bought with paine and perill, spent and past in a moment, and followed with a long and lothsome remorse of conscience. A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier
The offender may not demonstrate genuine, or even adequate, contrition or repentance.
Short acquaintance brings repentance.
Confession is the first step to repentance.
Similarly, Bertha's punishment of Rochester by burning his house and causing his injuries is the necessary precondition for his repentance and reform.
Hence their punishment was to be achieved through persuading them to repentance and guilt.
In the thirteenth century her character and role were significantly expanded to incorporate details of her life as a prostitute and her subsequent conversion and repentance.
But when such a man was roused from his stupor by the cauteries of Calvinism, despair was more likely to take possession of his mind than the pious energy and humble hopes which follow true repentance. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
The unjustly convicted who refuses to show repentance for a murder he did not commit fails to meet the first requirement of any parole board. Times, Sunday Times
So he returned to the pulpit and after shedding a few crocodile tears of repentance, he went right on preaching morality, chastising adultery and sermoning to others, how THEY should live a chaste life. Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
Well, repentance means to have a hearty, thorough, change of mind and it includes the idea of rejecting and renouncing the sinful, filthy lifestyle you've been living.
With obvious reference to the Kennedy funeral, he argued that when a politician is associated "with greatly sinful acts about fundamental questions like abortion and marriage, his repentance must also be public. Politics
Late repentance is seldom true.
But recovering, and his doctor coming, and advising to keep him quiet, I retired, and joined Mowbray in the garden; who took more delight to talk of the living Lovelace and levities, than of the dying Belton and his repentance. Clarissa Harlowe
Repentance skindeep . Pray at an altar . Hail Mary and Holy Mary.
Can we ever come to repentance and gain genuine self-knowledge under such a burden?
True repentance is necessarily a difficult process. Christianity Today
Consequently I do not hesitate to say that the Reformation, in rejecting contrition, cavilling over the word metanoia, attributing to faith alone the virtue of justification, deconsecrating repentance in short, took a step backward and utterly failed to recognize the law of progress. System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
Mormons who have been excommunicated, as Frank Curtis had been, may work through a period of repentance that ultimately leads to rebaptism and, once again, a clean slate. The Sins of Brother Curtis
Consequently I do not hesitate to say that the Reformation, in rejecting contrition, cavilling over the word metanoia, attributing to faith alone the virtue of justification, deconsecrating repentance in short, took a step backward and utterly failed to recognize the law of progress. System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
Let us not create heroes even before they show any remorse and repentance for their acts of terrorism?
Our downright repentance of misconduct toward a woman binds us at least to the tolerant recognition of what poor scraps of consolement she may have picked up between then and now -- when we can stretch fist in flame to defy it on the oath of her being a woman of honour. The Amazing Marriage — Complete
The best biblical example of this was John the Baptist, whose heart-searching message of repentance prepared the way for the public appearance of Jesus the Messiah and the new covenant established through his death.
The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
The king closes with the hope that the prince's "natural inclination will have a happie simpathie with these precepts; making the wise man's schoolmaister, which is the example of others, to be your teacher; and not that overlate repentance by your own experience, which is the schoolmaister of fools. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
As many Catholics and Anglicans take a trip to church to receive their ashes as a sign of repentance, a growing number of other Christian faiths reject the 40-day season of abnegation and fasting in favour of year-round righteousness.
If someone tells me that Senator Kennedy repented of his proabortion rights stance, then I am delighted to say that that is a "sign of repentance". Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
Otherwise I have no repentance — I am joueur — nature has made me so, as she made my brother devot. The Newcomes
It is nothing but their own repentance that can disentangle them; for shall one take up a snare from the earth, which he laid with design, except he have taken something as he designed? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
From short pleasure long repentance.
The consideration of the goodness of God, his common goodness to all (the goodness of his providence, of his patience, and of his offers), should be effectual to bring us all to repentance; and the reason why so many continue in impenitency is because they do not know and consider this. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
This repentance should be the natural outflow of proper Bible study. Christianity Today
Deeply ashamed and motivated by love and repentance, she anoints Jesus with oil and washes his feet.
Late repentance is seldom true.
These activities, my canon lawyer friend contends, are canonically acceptable “signs of repentance.” Dissent and Heresy
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
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After, in the eleventh part of the canon of the mass the priest beateth his breast saying: Nobis quoque peccatoribus, etc., and that signifieth the contrition and repentance that the thief that hung on the cross at the right hand of God had, when he said: Memento mei domine cum veneris in regnum tuum, that is to say: Lord I pray thee that thou be remembered of me when thou comest into thy realm. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
But he no sooner got well again than he repented of his repentance, and persisted in wrongfully keeping to himself some of the wealth belonging to the archbishopric. A Child's History of England
This leads naturally to prayer: praise, adoration, thanksgiving, petition, repentance, resolve.
At the same time, it would help if the Archdiocese of Boston would clue the country in on exactly what Senator Kennedy "repented" of when he gave his signs of repentance, so that we can avoid or minimize "public scandal". Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
So he returned to the pulpit and after shedding a few crocodile tears of repentance, he went right on preaching morality, chastising adultery and sermoning to others, how THEY should live a chaste life. Latest Articles
They refused to show repentance for their crimes.
The possibility open to them is repentance, the kind of radical reorientation of thinking that the New Testament writers term metanoia, literally, ‘a change of mind.’
This is the reason why we go to them for penance (the sacrament for confession of sins or repentance).
The question of his sudden wealth - and his very unrepentance in returning to town - has me hooked. Times, Sunday Times
And there are other considerations-the value of the stolen property, the absence of any extenuating circumstances like dire need, or repentance and restoration of property.
Saturday morning I lectured for another three hours on conversion and repentance.
There was no gratitude for any so-called leniency of the North, no repentance for the war, no desire for humiliation, for sackcloth and ashes, and no confession of wrong. The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states
No pleasure without alloy (or pain or repentance).
At the same time, his bad temper and lustfulness make him a mirror of his master, and this makes the mistaken identities of Act Two (and Leporello's eventual repentance) all the more realistic.
The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age.
You may think these words sound too religious or that confession and repentance will only make you feel rotten about yourself.
Samuel sets up a memorial stone with the name Ebenezer, "Stone of Help," not only to commemorate the victory but also as a reminder of the different results brought about by presumption on the one hand and by repentance on the other. The Happy Wonderer
The singing of psalms, provision of a confessor, entreaties for repentance, and the Eucharistic offering followed age-old traditions for those close to death, natural and otherwise.
The progress of the penitent is to be from negative reformation, "forsaking his way," and a farther step, "his thoughts," to positive repentance, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
No pleasure without alloy (or pain or repentance).
Maybe she learned more crime because prison can be a crime school, and maybe she explored some of the more sapphic parts of herself, but in terms of repentance or reform, that's just not Nancy. Weeds' Jenji Kohan: Nancy's Family Will Rebel in Season 7
The source of their conversion is here stated to be God's prevenient grace. for they shall return -- Repentance, though not the cause of pardon, is its invariable accompaniment: it is the effect of God's giving a heart to know Him. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Its call to repentance is grounded in the conviction that God will be lovingly faithful to unfaithful people.
The North's Central News Agency says the government "decided to leniently forgive and release" Robert Park, taking what it calls his admission and sincere repentance of his wrong doings into consideration. KWTX - HomePage - Headlines
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).
Because the Lord Jesus had commissioned them to preach three things: firstly, Christ died; secondly, He rose again; and, thirdly, repentance for the remissible of sins.
Nur al-Din repented him of that he had done, whenas repentance profited him naught, and his mother sait to him, O my son, this penitence will not profit thee; nor will aught avail thee but that thou arise forthwith and seek safety in flight: go forth the house privily and take refuge with one of thy friends and there what The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
We are, it seems, so far gone in sin and decadence that no repentance or penitence can be adequate.
Many evangelists preach an easy believism: no repentance, no yielding to Christ as Lord, no necessity for water baptism, no casting out of demons, no infilling of the Holy Spirit.
Without ever having been an expectant, as they call their journeymen excisemen, I was directly planted down to all intents and purposes an officer of excise; there to flourish and bring forth fruits -- worthy of repentance. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
'_Some_ repentance must, but even the sense of the inexpedience and inconvenience of evil habits may be the first step above them, and in time the power of genuine repentance may be attained.' Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
For forgiveness to be meaningful, there has to be remorse and repentance on the part of the person who did the damage. Times, Sunday Times
Late repentance is seldom true.
They give point to the cries of the preachers for repentance, conversion, and return to the old religion.
From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking repentance.
His chief reaction was not repentance nor dramatic interest, but a vexed longing to unwish the whole affair. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
Evil also is the teaching that repentance is higher than purity: "joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenth, _more than_ over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance" (Luke xv. The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History
Say that to-night as you look around on the grievous famine of the suppletory arts and stratagems of repentance and reformation in your heathenish bedroom. Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
For your foote bacchius of a short & two long ye haue these and the like words trisillables [lamenting] [requesting] [renouncing] [repentance] [entering]. The Arte of English Poesie
The holy hill (as some observe) is here called both a mountain of myrrh, which is bitter, and a hill of frankincense, which is sweet, for there we have occasion both to mourn and rejoice; repentance is a bitter sweet. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)

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