Definition of Repentance

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Definition of Repentance
	Repentance The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin. Related Definitions: Act, Being, Contrition, Do, Done, Especially, For, Has, Of, Omitted, One, Or, Penitent, Repenting, Sin, Sorrow, State, The, To, What

Repentance Quotations

Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Ambrose Bierce

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
Horace Mann

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
Edwin Louis Cole

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Gilbert Parker

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
Naguib Mahfouz

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt

Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden

Repentance Translations

repentance in Dutch is berouw, boetvaardigheid, inkeer
repentance in French is repentir
repentance in German is Reue
repentance in Spanish is arrepentimiento

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