Repent
Prostrate and rooting; -- said of stems.
Same as Reptant.
To feel pain, sorrow, or regret, for what one has done or omitted to do.
To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction.
To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin.
To feel pain on account of; to remember with sorrow.
To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.
To cause to have sorrow or regret; -- used impersonally.
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Repent Quotations
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas Jefferson
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
Henry David Thoreau
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
Voltaire
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob Dylan
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
George Eliot
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot
A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.
Charles Spurgeon
Repent Translations
repent in Dutch is tot inkeer komen, berouw hebben
repent in Finnish is katua
repent in French is repentir, repentez, repentons, repentent
repent in German is bereuen
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