Repentance
in sentence
105 examples of Repentance in a sentence
According to the Catholic Church, there's absolution for any sin as long as there's sincere
repentance.
This attitude is, of course, the very opposite of, say, that of Jonah, who actually resented it when God told him that his preaching to the people of Nineveh would result in their
repentance.
However, minus the
repentance
of the one being forgiven, any forgiveness he may receive from a genuine Christian is not going to do him any good.
Other than that, D & B boasts a good performances by Peck ( especially in the closing
repentance
scene) and by Jayne Meadows as his bitter first wife Michol, vivid, moody atmosphere (good idea to set most action at dawn or night), and the rousing rendition of the Twenty-Third Psalm at the end.
For Harris the entire project is clearly an extended and spectacular contortion of guilt and
repentance.
"Repentance
is not your enemy but yet it is also nobody's friend."
What is meant to be a scene in which Raskolnikov and Sonia experience profound repentance, grace and forgiveness during the reading of the gospel story of Lazarus, is twisted: Sonia reads one sentence of the Gospel (tossing aside the theme), and then it turns into a big kiss moment instead.
Absolutely awesome was the battle- the scale of the battle, the destruction, the disaster, the hatred and then the repentance, the scenes say it all absolutely wordlessly (Mark the scene where Asoka offers the dying soldier water, and he refuses to take it from the hated Asoka).
Despite the illustrious cast, there was nothing remotely spiritual in either the characters or the performances, save perhaps Forest Whittaker's scene of
repentance
in church towards the end, which nevertheless left much unresolved and was ultimately unconvincing.
Sorry StatesPARIS – National
repentance
is in the news again, as it has been with remarkable frequency in recent years.
Of course, Sarkozy would be surprised to be told that the same logic should lead to a declaration of
repentance
by the French state to Algeria, not to mention to the Algerian soldiers who fought under the French banner, the so-called “Harkis,” many of whom were abandoned to a terrible fate when France left the country in a hurry.
For many political leaders and analysts,
repentance
is a misplaced and excessive form of sensitivity.
Yet, in a globalized age, which demands transparency and posits interdependence,
repentance
can be considered an instrument of good governance.
Coming immediately after the upcoming French presidential election, the event offers an ideal opportunity for Sarkozy or his successor to engage in a symbolic act of
repentance.
Repentance
is not a sign of weakness.
If he was the author, was it his political manifesto or an act of
repentance?
There, he described a “deep
repentance
in his heart” when he visited a memorial to American soldiers who died in World War II, to whom he offered his “eternal condolences.”
Historians of Europe will probably one day conclude that it is the Holocaust and Europe’s relations with its Jews that paved the way for the opening of this process of
repentance.
In the eyes of historians, President Jacques Chirac’s redeeming value will most probably remain his courageous attempt to reconcile France’s wounded minorities with their past and the French nation through a national process of
repentance.
Indeed, a direct result of national
repentance
for the gulag era should have been the banning of the communist party and the disqualification from political office of those who worked in the KGB.
With deep
repentance
for the war, Japan made that pledge.
On the one hand this memory was too terrible to dwell upon, and on the other hand her husband's misfortune had meant for her too great a joy for
repentance
to be possible.
A feeling resembling
repentance
tormented him.
Levin at once felt the reproach in the look fixed on him, and a sense of
repentance
because of his own happiness.
Enough!"Was it a vow of
repentance
that had just escaped from this man's conscience . . .
She is steeped in
repentance
and the most extreme piety, I may be sure of that; but after all, she has still some memory of me, since she has just written to me.'
Before concluding, Julien returned to the question of premeditation, to his repentance, to the respect, the filial and unbounded adoration which, in happier times, he had felt for Madame de Renal ...Madame Derville uttered a cry and fainted.
He felt that she would not allow him to speak, and was seeking a way of expressing his
repentance
in the first words he would utter.
The intensity of my despair and of my
repentance
would have appeared in the eyes of the Valenods, and of all the patricians of the neighbourhood, a craven fear of death; they are so proud, those feeble hearts, whom their financial position places out of reach of temptation!"You see what it is," M. de Moirod and M. de Cholin, who have just sentenced me to death, would have said, "to be born the son of a carpenter!
She hastened at the summons, with earnest zeal, entertaining a secret hope that she was to be admitted to the gossip of a death-bed
repentance.
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