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Quotes About Relent

Why not relent, marry a reformed hooker, buy some old furniture and a ping-pong table, become a Cornhusker fan, open a dusty bottle of Kentucky straight, turn on the Rockies game, and enjoy the brief time you have left on this weird planet of sorrow?
~ Poe Ballantine
As every vibrant subcommunity knows, the defining prerequisite for such a subcommunity is a conviction that it can and will be different because of the purposes of God that will not relent.
~ Walter Brueggemann
Stop calling it a dream, its time to call it a plan, never relent kick-starting that plan, it will surely yield greatness
~ Akinwande Oluwasegun
All right,' Nico relented. 'Maybe a little …' He managed to take off his aviator jacket and wad it into a pillow before he keeled over and began to snore.
~ Rick Riordan
The strange thing was that it never did seem to satisfy them. They always looked disappointed when they let me go. I wished I could have pleased them, so they might have relented.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Everyone is the dude or woman for the moment they're in sometimes. And that's why I believe in fate and believe in God. I think there are things that are out of your circumstances. There are other forces, and you have to either relent and accept, dive in and immerse, or you can fight against it and probably be more aggravated than is necessary.
~ Paul Walter Hauser
I would have been here sooner but Lysander held me prisoner in our cloud," Bianka said with a grin. "He wouldn't relent until Sabin gave the ok. Which I still don't understand and will continue to punish him for until he spills. Secrets or guts, I don't care which.
~ Gena Showalter
As proof, the sole cable protecting them from disaster held until dawn, when the storm finally relented.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm" (Joel 2:13).
~ David Jeremiah
relent. She does not say so, but she has a soft spot for her nephew. I cannot blame her. There was a time when I loved him, too. No longer. I cannot bear to be in the same room with him. My son is now a year old and I have not seen him since last spring.
~ Unknown
But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
~ 2 Samuel 24:16
Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
~ 1 Chronicles 21:15
And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
~ Psalm 106:45
Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering and offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these?
~ Isaiah 57:6
Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”
~ Jeremiah 4:28
But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
~ Jeremiah 18:8
Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.
~ Jeremiah 26:3
So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.
~ Jeremiah 26:13
Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”
~ Jeremiah 26:19
ëIf you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.
~ Jeremiah 42:10
I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,í declares the Lord GOD.”
~ Ezekiel 24:14
So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
~ Amos 7:3
So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
~ Amos 7:6
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Hosts,
~ Zechariah 8:14