REPENTANCE QUOTES II

quotations about repentance

Repentance quote

Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims

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The sinning is the best part of repentance.

ANONYMOUS


It is a great deal easier to commit a second sin, than it was to commit the first; and a great deal harder to repent of a second, than it was to repent of the first.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Some often repent yet never reform; they resemble a man travelling a dangerous path who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth

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He that does not repent, sins again.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


The 'I', the 'self' of the child of God, is born in the midst of the ruins of repented idolatry.

JAMES ALISON

Faith Beyond Resentment


Moreover, true repentance never exists except in conjunction with faith, while on the other hand, wherever there is true faith, there is also real repentance. The two are but different aspects of the same turning--a turning away from sin in the direction of God.

LOUIS BERKHOF

Systematic Theology

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It is good for a man to repent of his sins; but better for him had he never sinned.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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Remorse is the poison of life, and repentance its cure.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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Repentance is but want of power to sin.

JOHN DRYDEN

Palamon and Arcite

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How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI

The Mistress of Spices


There is a repentance unto death; the regret for having sinned, springing from no other cause than horror of sin's punishment, is many a time felt very dreadfully on the bed of death by the ungodly who are dying in their sins.

RALPH WARDLAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence renews the racket, not repentance.

OGDEN NASH

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

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Repentance is purgative; fear not the working of this pill.

THOMAS WATSON

The Doctrine of Repentance


Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

JOHN ORTBERG, JR.

The Me I Want to Be

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Oh, the air is sultry and pregnant with lightning.
And therefore we call to our deluded brothers: Repent, repent, the Kingdom of the Lord is at hand!

MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

"The Reaction in Germany"

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Jesus calls all sinners to repent. True repentance is not a nebulous response of sorrow; it requires definite actions. Repentance so transforms the mind that it results in a changed life. Repentance does not merely say "I'm sorry" (similar to what we say when we accidentally step on someone's foot). Rather, true repentance says from the heart, "I've been wrong and grieve over my sin, but now I see the truth, and I will change my ways accordingly."

JOEL R. BEEKE

Why Christ Came: 31 Meditations on the Incarnation


A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

J. C. MACAULAY

attributed, Quote Unquote


The sun may rise tomorrow, but you may not. Repent today.

WHYISLAM

Twitter post, April 1, 2014