Crossword-Solution: REPENTANCE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Repentance | n. | The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REPENTANCE | anagram | PENETRANCE |
We have 33 clues for the answer “REPENTANCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| remorse for your past conduct | 1 answer |
| Yom Kippur prayer topic | 1 answer |
| Pillar of many religions | 1 answer |
| Death-bed sentiment, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Sermon topic | 9 answers |
| penitence | 12 answers |
| Contrition | 19 answers |
| Guilt | 35 answers |
| extenuation | 40 answers |
| ratiocination | 43 answers |
| apologia | 43 answers |
| Vindication | 43 answers |
| exoneration | 44 answers |
| Life after death? | 45 answers |
| Rationale | 47 answers |
| Reparation | 49 answers |
| rationalization | 50 answers |
| absolution | 51 answers |
| plea | 52 answers |
| amends | 54 answers |
| Justification | 55 answers |
| Intention | 55 answers |
| apology | 57 answers |
| Rationalism | 59 answers |
| defence | 60 answers |
| Logic | 60 answers |
| Sanity | 62 answers |
| Excuse | 66 answers |
| Aim | 68 answers |
| confession | 69 answers |
| Mind | 69 answers |
| Objective | 70 answers |
| Design | 80 answers |
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Sentences with REPENTANCE (5)
His mind sped into the future, and saw there enacted in years of leisure the scenes of repentance that would ensue from this work of haste.
Poor, miserable man! what right had infirmity like his to burden itself with crime? Crime is for the iron-nerved, who have their choice either to endure it, or, if it press too hard, to exert their fierce and savage strength for a good purpose, and fling it off at once! This feeble and most sensitive of spirits could do neither, yet continually did one thing or another, which intertwined, in the same inextricable knot, the agony of heaven-defying guilt and vain repentance.
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? I do; and I release you.
Now had the great Proclaimer, with a voice More awful than the sound of trumpet, cried Repentance, and Heaven’s kingdom nigh at hand 20 To all baptized.
Tom went to bed that night planning vengeance against Alfred Temple; for with shame and repentance Becky had told him all, not forgetting her own treachery; but even the longing for vengeance had to give way, soon, to pleasanter musings, and he fell asleep at last with Becky’s latest words lingering dreamily in his ear— “Tom, how _could_ you be so noble!” CHAPTER XXI Vacation was approaching.
Quotes with REPENTANCE (3)
Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.
Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit," "free will" -- "unfree will" for that matter), and purely imaginary effects ("sin," "salvation," "grace," "punishment," "forgiveness of sins"). Intercourse between imaginary beings ("God," "spirits," "souls"); an imaginary natural science (anthropocentric; a total denial of the concept of natural causes); an imaginary psyc…
There is hope for the sinner! Salvation is there for the unbelief! The saved don’t need salvation; they only need to be strengthened for the rescue work! Absolute repentance, a true faith and hope in Jesus Christ are the most important things the sinner and the unbelief need for a true salvation in Christ!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NY Sun.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1996–2020).