Repentance Quotes
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God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. (Quote by - Seneca)
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. (Quote by - J. C. Macaulay)
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. (Quote by - Beverly Sills)
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. (Quote by - Gilbert Parker)
But with the morning cool repentance came. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
True repentance is to cease from sinning. (Quote by - Ambrose Of Milan)
I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae. (Quote by - A.A. Dowty)
Repentance is another name for aspiration. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
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. (Quote by - John Masefield)
Restore to God His due in tithe and time; A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate. (Quote by - George Herbert)
When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour Calls us to penance. (Quote by - John Milton)
That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner, And presently repair to Crosby House; Where--after I have solemnly interred At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king-- And wet his grave with my repentant tears-- I will with all expedient duty see you. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he. (Quote by - Walter Brower)
Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath Repented o'er his doom. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. (Quote by - Horace Mann )
Repentance is but want of power to sin. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Bad men are full of repentance. (Quote by - Aristotle)
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. (Quote by - Francis H. Bradley)
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Woman, amends may never come to late. (Quote by - Robert Greene and Thomas Lodge)
God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance. (Quote by - Patrick Gordon)
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking. (Quote by - Moorish Proverb)
Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
If I die, I forgive you: if I recover, we shall see. (Quote by - Spanish proverb)
Apology is only egotism wrong side out. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Repentance is accepted remorse. (Quote by - Anne Sophie Swetchine)
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. (Quote by - Vittorio Alfieri)
No sensible person ever made an apology. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance. (Quote by - Old saying)
Forethought is easy, repentance hard. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
The dream is short, repentance long. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
There are people who are very resourceful At being remorseful, And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends Is to do something terrible and then make amends. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
He's half absolv'd Who has confess'd. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. (Quote by - P. G. Wodehouse)
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent! (Quote by - George Crabbe)
Repentance is for little children. (Quote by - Adolf Eichmann)
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent. (Quote by - Seneca)
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded. (Quote by - Kenneth Scott Latourette)
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. (Quote by - Naguib Mahfouz)
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. (Quote by - Charles Simmons)
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's good only for wallowing in. (Quote by - Katherine Mansfield)
Repentance follows hasty counsels. (Quote by - Syrus)
He comes never late who comes repentant. (Quote by - Juan de Horozco)
Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang Shoots through the conscious heart. (Quote by - James Thomson (1))
When prodigals return great things are done. (Quote by - A.A. Dowty)
But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out. (Quote by - Archibald Alexander)
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. (Quote by - Syrus)
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody. (Quote by - Desmond Harrington)
I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life. (Quote by - Bede Griffiths)
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? O wretched state? O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The sinning is the best part of repentance. (Quote by - Arabic proverb)
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silenceis safety. (Quote by - William Drummond)
Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment. (Quote by - Jose Bergamin)
I suppose you've heard all those wicked stories about me. Well, I've lived my life as it came and I've done bloody marvels with a bad hand. (Quote by - Libby Holman)
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain. (Quote by - Bidpai)
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Apologize, v: to lay the foundation for a future offence. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Apology - a desperate habit, and one that is rarely cured. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. (Quote by - Edwin Louis Cole)
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. (Quote by - Plutarch)
