Repentance Quotes
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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith in the living Christ-both those of commission and those of omission-opens spiritual doors. As we feel the potency of repentance, we better understand why Christ admonished the early missionaries of this dispensation to "say nothing but repentance unto this generation."
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.
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Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.
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Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance.
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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.
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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.
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Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.
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God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
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Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.
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There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.
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There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.
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And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.
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Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
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Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.
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The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.
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A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.
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The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.
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Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.
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Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
