Repentance Quotes

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...I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered me

...I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles...

Love Sin Selfishness Repentance Refusal Hard Hearted

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I hav

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.

Time Forgiveness Humility Sin Guilt Repentance

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure

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

Life Humor Funny Wedding Love Marriage Matrimony Courtship Repentance Wooing

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it ha

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

Heart Repentance

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most

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.

Morality Guilt Repentance Remorse Absolution Brooding Wallowing Wrongdoing

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greate

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Man Faults Repentance