Sentence examples for repentance that from inspiring English sources

Yom Kippur concludes the "10 days of repentance" that begin with Rosh Hashana (New Year's Day) on the first day of Tishri.

When a repentant Bill Clinton addressed the clergy after the sex scandal that threatened his presidency, it was Rabbi Stern's book, "Gates of Repentance" that he quoted.

I think it's the succinctness of the statement: Nauman isolated the two emotions — remorse and repentance — that are the rhetorical burden of any German memorial to the Holocaust, and he stripped them of folderol.

The psychological pattern with which McCain seems most comfortable holds him initially suspended in perfect tension between principle and ambition; the tension slackens, he slides into a betrayal of his ideals, and then he undergoes a searing period of repentance that ends in a renewed commitment to do what is right regardless of the consequences.

It is, therefore, the condition of self-reflection and repentance that allows for the reception of the Pure Land teaching.

What is authentically known of such a self by the nembutsu practitioner, according to both Shōkū and Shinran, is the repentance that is also Amida's wisdom-compassion.

If you don't see repentance, understand that according forgiveness to that person is a benefit to yourself, not to the offender.

At the moment for remorse and repentance, all that appeared were new and higher-minded rationalizations.

Sample: An ostensibly grown-up son, never allowed the space to please his abusive mother, sings to her, for approval and repentance, now that she is dead.

Even at the time, with Weiner in full repentance mode, that New York Times interview with him three months ago presented as unpalatably calculating.

Its adoption followed a service of repentance last week that made a formal apology for acts of racism by Methodists against African-Americans.