REPENTANCE QUOTES II
quotations about repentance
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
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
He that does not repent, sins again.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN
Palamon and Arcite
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
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
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
Remorse is the poison of life, and repentance its cure.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Repentance is purgative; fear not the working of this pill.
THOMAS WATSON
The Doctrine of Repentance
It is good for a man to repent of his sins; but better for him had he never sinned.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
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
Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
JOHN ORTBERG, JR.
The Me I Want to Be
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"
The sun may rise tomorrow, but you may not. Repent today.
WHYISLAM
Twitter post, April 1, 2014
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
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
He that repents every day for the sins of every day, when he comes to die will have the sins but of one day to repent of; short reckonings make long friends.
PHILIP HENRY
attributed, Christian Dogmatics