Thesaurus / repentance
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Muslims believe that fasting develops submission to God, empathy with the poor and repentance and gives time for spiritual introspection.
FASTING MAY HAVE BECOME A HEALTH FAD, BUT RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR MILLENNIALGBTQ-EDITORJULY 30, 2021NO STRAIGHT NEWSThey carried megaphones and signs about repentance and damnation, but once the restaurant’s staff blasted Gaga’s “Born This Way” on the patio speakers the crowd began to disperse.
OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM ENDS WITH A QUESTION. LADY GAGA ANSWERED IT AS BEST SHE COULD.CHRIS RICHARDSJANUARY 20, 2021WASHINGTON POSTOnly much later, after Anne Sullivan had taught to her to sign using English, had Keller “realized what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow.”
FIVE SCIENTISTS ON THE HEROES WHO CHANGED THEIR LIVES - ISSUE 93: FORERUNNERSALAN LIGHTMAN, HOPE JAHREN, ROBERT SAPOLSKY,DECEMBER 2, 2020NAUTILUSBy 2018, he was eager to demonstrate his repentance, while Daines, two years away from his own reelection bid, was eager to help him.
WANT TO WIN IN MONTANA? IT'S THE ENVIRONMENT, STUPID.ELLIOTT D. WOODSOCTOBER 28, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEFrom mere regrets he was passing now, through dismay, into utter repentance of his promise.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIHenoch pleased God, and was translated into paradise, that he may give repentance to the nations.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSAnd remorse without one grain of honest repentance pierced his heart.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READEI had not prayed openly before, now when I was nearing death it was no time for a hurried repentance and a stammered prayer.
PRIVATE PEATHAROLD R. PEATHis grandfather had repented, but who was to preach repentance unto these?
THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFECHARLOTTE M. YONGEHow it puts one to shame to hear such repentance with such a confession!'
THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFECHARLOTTE M. YONGEWORDS RELATED TO REPENTANCE
- affliction
- anguish
- annoyance
- apologies
- apology
- bitterness
- care
- compunction
- concern
- conscience
- contrition
- demur
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dissatisfaction
- dole
- grief
- heartache
- heartbreak
- lamentation
- misgiving
- nostalgia
- pang
- penitence
- qualm
- regretfulness
- remorse
- repentance
- ruefulness
- scruple
- self-accusation
- self-condemnation
- self-disgust
- self-reproach
- sorrow
- uneasiness
- woe
- worry
- affliction
- agony
- anguish
- bad news
- big trouble
- blow
- blues
- care
- catastrophe
- dejection
- depression
- distress
- dolor
- grieving
- hardship
- heartache
- heartbreak
- lamenting
- melancholy
- misery
- misfortune
- mourning
- pain
- rain
- regret
- remorse
- repentance
- rue
- sadness
- suffering
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unhappiness
- weeping
- woe
- worry
- wretchedness
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