REPENTANCE QUOTES IV

quotations about repentance

Repentance quote

The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Selected Essays, 1778-1830

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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World

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Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord himself--who alone can say, "I am with you"--can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.

ST. AMBROSE

attributed, Day's Collacon


He comes never late who comes repentant.

JUAN DE HOROZCO

Manasses


Of all acts, is not, for a man, repentance the most divine? The deadliest sin, I say, were that same supercilious consciousness of no sin.

THOMAS CARLYLE

"The Hero as Prophet", Sartor Resartus

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When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance of his offense, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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In repentance itself, arising from a timely discovery of our guilt and danger, there is no ground for pain, but much for gratitude and satisfaction.

JABEZ BUNTING

Sermons


Repentance is a magistrate that exacts the strictest duty and humility, because the reward it gives is inestimable and everlasting; and the pain and punishment it redeems men from, is of the same continuance and yet intolerable.

EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON

Essays Moral and Entertaining: On the Various Faculties and Passions of the Human Mind