What's the difference between repentance and salvation?

Repentance


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our fast will continue for as long as we prayerfully discern that we stand in need of repentance as a Church.
  • (2) Russian law does not make repentance a condition for an early release.
  • (3) The first test is whether he will appoint any repentant Big Beasts to his shadow cabinet.
  • (4) It would also underline that true rehabilitation of offenders requires remorse and repentance as otherwise the punishment has not served it’s underlying purpose; it could be argued that the offender has not really paid the full price for their crime and so forfeits their entitlement to rebuild their life without restriction.
  • (5) The Gove era saw much activity in haste and less repentance in leisure.
  • (6) But proud or repentant about their body art, more than 100 employees at the Osaka city government may have to have their tattoos removed or search for another job following the local mayor's crackdown on tattoos.
  • (7) "Prosecutors said Liu had a very good attitude in confession and a strong desire to repent," Xinhua reported.
  • (8) Updated at 11.56am BST 11.41am BST Predict in haste, repent at leisure .
  • (9) Alyokhina was refused early release after prosecutors said she hadn't repented of her crime and had violated prison rules.
  • (10) "Is it unimaginable that those who plotted, participated or played any role in the massacre of Luxor, become the rulers even if they renounced and repented it," said Tharwat Agamy, the head of Luxor's tourism chamber.
  • (11) Finally he remembered a man who had been suspended by the ANC for some minor infraction of discipline and who was only too pleased to show repentance by driving his president anywhere he wanted at any time of day or night.
  • (12) He survived an assassination attempt in Jeddah in September 2009 when a Saudi Aqap operative named Abdullah al-Asiri feigned repentance for his jihadi views in a meeting with the prince then blew himself up with a bomb concealed in his anus.
  • (13) A lesbian woman due to be deported from Britain to Uganda has been told by a Ugandan MP that she must "repent or reform" when she returns home.
  • (14) It was the bishop of Norwich, who speaks for the Church of England on the media, who pointed out in a Lords debate that this wilful isolation, this stubborn failure to face reality, was making things worse for the press: "The sad thing is that there has been surprisingly little public repentance and a great deal of self-justification and lapses of memory.
  • (15) Rejected as a candidate for the priesthood, the English author Frederick Rolfe wrote, under the pseudonym “Baron Corvo”, a novel, Hadrian the Seventh (1904), in which a failed priest is later made pope by a repentant Vatican.
  • (16) As they say – marry in haste and repent at leisure."
  • (17) Dmitry Medvedev, the prime minister, has said he thinks they should be released, while the Russian Orthodox church has called for them to be released if they repent.
  • (18) Repentance, the process of change in Evangelical Renewal Therapy, is achieved through the analysis of moral action, rebuke, confession, prayer, recompense, and mortification through good works.
  • (19) If someone has not been convicted we cannot judge people on rumours, without proof,” he said, stressing that his decree did not close the door to mafia figures seeking to repent.
  • (20) As well as calling on the church to show "real repentance for the lack of welcome and acceptance extended to homosexual people in the past", the report also urges it to think about whether it is reasonable to allow lay people to be in sexually active same-sex relationships while requiring celibacy from its clergy and bishops, saying: "In the facilitated discussions it will be important to reflect on the extent to which the laity and the clergy should continue to observe such different disciplines."

Salvation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.
  • (n.) The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness.
  • (n.) Saving power; that which saves.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is a moral swamp, but it's one the Salvation Army claims to be stepping into out of charity .
  • (2) She says even before the SBS report went to air she had tried to alert her boss at the Salvation Army to the abuse, because she felt staff at the centre were not doing all they could to prevent it from happening again.
  • (3) About 100 people put in résumés for a casual – and low-paid – job at the Salvation Army homeless shelter.
  • (4) In tracts and treatises they furiously debated such issues as the nature of man, the powers of God, and the true path to salvation.
  • (5) According to internet security experts our salvation lies in passwords.
  • (6) One is why people become entranced by the idea of the end of times, and the other is how they make sense after the event, when the predictions of salvation and catastrophe have failed to materialise.
  • (7) For the Salvation Army and the careworn guys outside the unused Saint Martin station, however, there are much more important priorities.
  • (8) In Australia, where an estimated 54,000 of Asia-Pacific’s 21 million-plus domestic workers are based, a Salvation Army report catalogued 16-hour days without breaks, non-payment of wages and physical violence.
  • (9) As evidence of this new-found fondness, the album features a guest appearance from a local Salvation Army band.
  • (10) Born into a Salvation Army family, Taylor became a "junior soldier" aged five, pledging allegiance to the charity – the organisation has a military-style structure – and by 16, she was a senior soldier.
  • (11) That television news report by the BBC's Michael Buerk in 1984 framed Ethiopia for a generation as a place of famine and in need of salvation.
  • (12) In July, PNG police arrested G4S guard Louie Efi and Salvation Army worker Joshua Kaluvia, charging them both with Barati’s murder.
  • (13) Community groups such as the Salvation Army have warned: “These laws will disproportionately affect marginalised young people, people experiencing homelessness, poverty and mental health issues.” They fear that the vulnerable people might be excluded from public spaces by the new system, but have nowhere else to go, and find themselves imprisoned as a result.
  • (14) Passages in the Bible attribute one and the same 'life' ('soul') to both (Book of Proverbs 12: 10) and presuppose 'salvation' or 'preservation' of the two (Psalm 36:7c).
  • (15) We’re not very kind to people who come up with their hand out and say, ‘Where’s your shelter?’” Indeed, every day, newcomers to Williston get off the bus or train and wander up Main Street to the Salvation Army, expecting to stay there while they find work or an apartment.
  • (16) Sure enough, a block later, there are a group of people waiting for the doors of the Salvation Army to open at 10pm.
  • (17) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
  • (18) Suddenly, China’s stock exchanges have become wards of the Chinese Communist party – and their fate hardly bodes well for Xi’s declaration that the nation’s economic salvation will lie in allowing market forces to play a greater role in the allocation of resources.
  • (19) She recalls being pleased when an older male Salvation Army member was friendly at the charity's local youth club.
  • (20) It felt like an adventure.” In London, Ali Abuzeid helped to set up the National Front for the Salvation of Libya.