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
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN
Palamon and Arcite
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
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
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
In true repentance, wrought by the Holy Spirit through the application of divine truth to the mind and conscience, though there may be much fear, much of well-founded apprehension, and a painful sense of guilt and danger, yet there will be some intermingling of hope. The penitent himself may not always be very distinctly conscious of it, until he come more carefully to examine the state of his mind. He may at particular seasons be almost overwhelmed by distress and by apprehension; yet, in every true penitent there is a hope, a measure of hope, however at seasons faint and indistinct. And his hope is, that God, who has wounded him, will undertake to heal him; and that he shall soon be brought to experience the pardon of his sin, and adoption into the family of God.
JABEZ BUNTING
Sermons
Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
Official Report of the Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 158
It is good for a man to repent of his sins; but better for him had he never sinned.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
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
Repentance is purgative; fear not the working of this pill.
THOMAS WATSON
The Doctrine of Repentance
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
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
Hamlet
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
Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is half, or altogether, innocent.
ROBERT HERRICK
Hesperides
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