| 50 Repentance Quotes
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“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.”
François de la Rochefoucauld Quotes |
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“Sudden friendship, sure repentance.”
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“Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking”
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“If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder”
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“Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed”
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Quotes |
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“The sinning is the best part of repentance”
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“Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back”
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“Repentance is good, but innocence better”
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“But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We make the communications clear for a people who know. (The Immunity 9.11)”
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“O ye powers that search
The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,
If I have done amiss, impute it not!
The best may err, but you are good.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act V, sc. 4)
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“To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes
the virtuous from the wicked.
[It., D'uomo e il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.]”
Vittorio Alfieri Quotes Source: Rosmunda (III, 1)
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“Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to
his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.”
Bidpai (Pilpay) Quotes Source: The Prince and his Minister (chap. iii, fable iii)
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“To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!”
George Crabbe Quotes Source: Tales of the Hall (bk. III, Boys at School, last line)
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“When prodigals return great things are done.”
A.A. Dowty Quotes Source: The Siliad, in Beeton's "Christmas Annual"
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“I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand
drachmae.”
A.A. Dowty Quotes Source: The Siliad, in Beeton's "Christmas Annual"
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“When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: Ode to Adversity
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“Woman, amends may never come to late.”
Robert Greene and Thomas Lodge Quotes Source: A Looking Glass for London and England
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“Restore to God His due in tithe and time;
A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: The Temple--The Church Porch (st. 65)
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“Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.”
Robert Herrick Quotes Source: Hesperides--Penitence
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“He comes never late who comes repentant.”
Juan de Horozco Quotes Source: Manasses, Rey de India (Jorn, III)
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“God dropped a spark down into everyone,
And if we find and fan it to a blaze,
It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,
And light the wandering out of stony ways.”
John Masefield Quotes Source: Widow in the Bye Street (pt. VI)
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“When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 90)
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“He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but
of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with
a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have
gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without
having a will by him.”
Plutarch Quotes Source: Life of Cato (vol. II, p. 495), (Langhorne's translation)
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“The dream is short, repentance long.
[Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes Source: Lied von der Glocke
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“But with the morning cool repentance came.”
Sir Walter Scott Quotes Source: Rob Roy (ch. XII)
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