REPENTANCE QUOTES III
quotations about repentance
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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 engag'd!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Hamlet
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Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God; not some one bare act of change, but a lasting, durable state of new life, which is called regeneration.
HENRY HAMMOND
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
It is good for a man to repent of his sins; but better for him had he never sinned.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
True Repentance is that saving grace wrought in the soul by the spirit of God, whereby a sinner is made to see and be sensible of his sin, is grieved and humbled before God on account of it, not so much for the punishment to which sin has made him liable, as that thereby God is dishonoured and offended, his laws violated, and his own soul polluted and defiled; and this grief arises from love to God, and is accompanied with an hatred of sin, a fixed resolution to forsake it, and expectation of favour and forgiveness through the merits of Christ.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance, and, with his bad legs, falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Much Ado about Nothing
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
The sun may rise tomorrow, but you may not. Repent today.
WHYISLAM
Twitter post, April 1, 2014
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
Repentance is faith's usher, and dews all her way with tears.
THOMAS ADAMS
The Works of Thomas Adams: Being the Sum of His Sermons
The godly grief of repentance and the concern of inwardness must above all not be confused with impatience. Experience teaches that to repent at once is not always even the right time to repent, because in this moment of haste, when the engaged thoughts and various passions are still busily in motion or at least tensed in the relaxation, repentance can so easily be mistaken about what really should be repented, can so easily confuse itself with the opposite: with momentary remorse, that is, with impatience; with a painful, tormentingly worldly grief, that is, with impatience. But impatience, however long it continues to rage, however darkened the mind becomes, never becomes repentance; its weeping, however convulsed with sobs, never becomes the weeping of repentance; its tears are as devoid of beneficent fruitfulness as clouds without ran, as a spasmodic shower. But if a person incurred some greater guilt but also improved and year by year steadily made progress in the good, it is certain that year after year, with greater inwardness-all in proportion to his progress in the greater inwardness-he will repent of that guilt from which he year after year distances himself in the temporal sense. It is indeed true that guilt must stand vividly before a person if he is truly to repent, but momentary repentance is very dubious and is not to be hoped for at all simply because it perhaps is not the deep inwardness of concern that sets forth the guilt so vividly, but only a momentary feeling. Then regret is selfish, sensuous, sensuously powerful in the moment, inflamed in expression, impatient in the most contradictory overstatements-and for this very reason it is not repentance.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits
Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance.
THADDEUS OF VITOVNICA
Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives
Let not neither the tears of natural tenderness, nor the sudden terrors of conscious guilt, be mistaken for genuine repentance.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
Repentance is the debt one owes to virtue.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
True repentance has a double aspect: it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.
ROBERT SOUTH
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J. C. MACAULAY
attributed, Quote Unquote
Many persons who appear to repent, are like sailors who throw their goods overboard in a storm, and wish for them again in a calm.
MEAD
attributed, Day's Collacon
People don't do what they believe in, they just do what's most convenient, then they repent.
BOB DYLAN
"Brownsville Girl"
While repentance is indispensable to eternal life, we are not to regard it in the light of a price paid for its possession. It is not an expiatory grace, or a compensation for moral indebtedness.
GEORGE C. LORIMER
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
Men are born to sin ... What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.
SHARON KAY PENMAN
The Sunne in Splendour