Sentence examples for a repentance from inspiring English sources

In the morning, he was ordered to hand over a cow as a "repentance fee".

This is what art historians call a "pentimento" – literally, a repentance, used to mean a second thought.

There was a moralizing overtone to those adjustments, a repentance of the opulence of the 80's.

In 1966 when students from Bethel, a Mennonite college, in North Newton, planned a Repentance Walk to protest the war, opposition came not only from the American Legion but from Mennonites who believed such acts would stir up resentment against Mennonites.

Within the tradition of life-writing, there is a recurrent interest in death-bed scenes, whether they come as a repentance for past life (as in Bishop Burnet's life of the poet Rochester) or as a moment of culminating grace (as in innumerable works of hagiography).

So when IS took over, fighters demanded she apply for a repentance card.

Philip made a quick repentance at a small church on his way back to Rome from the Persian front, a stark contrast to the grandeur of Theodosius' confrontation with Ambrose.

Creating a Jewish cemetery on their farm turns out to be a family repentance for their father having killed Jewish neighbors during the war.

"A divine authority told me to tell the people to make a general repentance.

May August 9th be a day of remembrance, a day of repentance, and a day to confess that violence is evil.

A Timely Repentance.