Quotes of Repentance - somelinesforyou

“ True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. ”

- Robert Smith

“ Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Bad men are full of repentance. ”

- Aristotle

“ But with morning cool repentance came. ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance. ”

- Unknown

“ He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hath not promised life till we repent. ”

- Francis Quarles

“ It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong — it can end everything. ”

- Henry Miller

“ Repentance is another name for aspiration. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Repentance is but want of power to sin. ”

- John Dryden

“ Repentance may be old fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. ”

- J. C. Macaulay

“ Sudden friendship, sure repentance. ”

- Unknown

“ The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ True repentance is to cease from sinning. ”

- Ambrose of Milan

“ Guilt is anger directed at ourselves — at what we did or did not do. ”

- Peter McWilliams

“ Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. ”

- Cicero

“ Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. ”

- Robert Herrick

“ We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ When such as I cast out remorseSo great a sweetness flows into the breastWe must laugh and we must sing,We are blest by everything,Everything we look upon is blest. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. ”

- Bible

“ How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! ”

- Alexander Pope

“ A land of levity is a land of guilt. ”

- Edward Young

“ Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt. screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. ”

- Unknown
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