All 6 Uses of
repent
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- and they nice girls, but their minds ain't on the Lord, and I try to tell them the time to repent ain't tomorrow, it's today.†
Chpt 1.1repent = to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future
- And yet, it came to him that this living son, this headlong, living Royal, might be cursed for the sin of his mother, whose sin had never been truly repented; for that the living proof of her sin, he who knelt tonight, a very interloper among the saints, stood between her soul and God.†
Chpt 2.2repented = expressed regret for having done something wrong
- if she had truly repented of her sin.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- but he had held on to the promise; he had walked before God in true repentance and waited on the promise.†
Chpt 2.2repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong and to desire to be a better person in the future
- And, rising, Gabriel thought of how the Lord had led him to this church so long ago, and how Elizabeth, one night after he had preached, had walked this long aisle to the altar, to repent before God her sin.†
Chpt 2.2repent = to feel regret for having done wrong and to firmly decide to be a better person in the future
- Where, then, was her repentance?†
Chpt 2.3repentance = to feel or express regret for having done wrong and to desire to be a better person in the future