Sentence examples for repentance it from inspiring English sources
Those who leave can also be refused a Christian burial, unless they "give some sign of repentance," it read.
In the third century, Rabbi Hama bar Hanina wrote, "Great is repentance: it brings healing to the world".
Anglicanism, he went on, is in a state so delicate that "without prayer and repentance, it is hard to see how we can avoid some serious fractures".
I have to say that we are in a state so delicate that without prayer and repentance, it is hard to see how we can avoid some serious fractures.In even plainer language, the division between (roughly speaking) northern and especially North American liberals, and traditionalists whose biggest stronghold is Africa, has become or is about to become unmanageable.
While Yom Kippur is characterized by solemn fasting and marathon prayers of repentance, it is actually considered the most joyous day of the Jewish year because it commemorates God's forgiveness of the sin of the Golden Calf, the Israelites' slip into idolatry after the giving of the Ten Commandments, and is considered a time to spiritually start anew.
It is typically translated as "repentance", but it actually means "to return".
Many people, both Koreans and Japanese, have been outraged by the shrine visit, seeing it as a sign of Japan's insensitivity and lack of repentance for it past aggression in northeast Asia.
That is a very sweeping statement about an institution that is supposedly devoted to loving kindness, peace and moral repentance, but it is not an original one.
Like his press colleagues, the writer was astonished at the brevity of Mrs Miller's "wail of repentance", clocking it at 31 seconds: "(At this point I must issue an unreserved apology of my own. Initially I reported on Twitter that it lasted as long as 34 seconds. I inadvertently over-claimed".
Teshuvah is most commonly defined as repentance, but it literally means return.
As White saw it, America felt moved to "erect this pallid shrunken image of its lost ideals and bow down before it in subconscious repentance for its iniquities".
