Repentance Quotes
These are some of the best 'Repentance' quotations and sayings.
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A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.
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Blest tears of soul-felt penitence, in whose benign, redeeming flow, is felt the first, the only sense of guiltless joy that guilt can know.
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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
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He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
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If you would be good, first believe you are bad.
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It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and most concerns dying men. Indeed, what is necessary every hour of our life is necessary in the hour of death too, and as long as one lives he will have need of repentance, and therefore it is necessary in the hour of death too; but he who hath constantly exercised himself in it in his health and vigor, will do it with less pain in his sickness and weakness; and he who hath practiced it all his life, will do it with more ease and less perplexity in the hour of his death.
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It is the greatest and dearest blessing that ever God gave to men, that they may repent; and therefore to deny or to delay it is to refuse health when brought by the skill of the physician - to refuse liberty offered to us by our gracious Lord.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we may fall.
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Place not thy amendment only in increasing thy devotion, but in bettering thy life. It is the damning hypocrisy of this age that it slights all good morality, and spends its zeal in matters of ceremony, and a form of godliness without the power of it.
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Repentance hath a purifying power, and every tear is of a cleansing virtue; but these penitential clouds must be still kept dropping; one shower will not suffice; for repentance is not one single action but a course.
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Repentance is a hearty sorrow for our past misdeeds, and a sincere resolution and endeavor, to the utmost of our power, to conform all our actions to the law of God. It does not consist in one single act of sorrow, but in doing works meet for repentance; in a sincere obedience to the law of Christ for the remainder of our lives.
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Repentance is the heart's sorrow, and a clear life ensuing.
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Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. - Sorrow, fear, and anxiety are properly not parts, but adjuncts of repentance, yet they are too closely connected with it to be separated.
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Repentance may begin, instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.
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Sorrow for having done amiss is fruitless if it issue not in doing so no more.
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The best part of repentance is little sinning.
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