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Quotes About Repentance

Doctrines That Can Take You To Hell",
~ Henry Bechthold
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
He had committed no evil action, but, what was far worse than an evil action, he had entertained evil thoughts, whence evil actions proceed. An evil action may not be repeated, and can be repented of; but evil thoughts generate all evil actions. An evil action only smooths the path for other evil acts; evil thoughts uncontrollably drag one along that path.
~ Leo Tolstoy
For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Forgive me not according to my unworthiness, but according to thy loving kindness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But really, why should you distress yourself? Whoever stirs up the past — out with his eye! Who is not a sinner before God and to blame before the Tsar, as the saying is?
~ Leo Tolstoy
Rakes, those male Magdalenes, have a secret feeling of innocence similar to that which female Magdalenes have, based on the same hope of forgiveness. 'All will be forgiven her, for she loved much; and all will be forgiven him, for he enjoyed much.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The prayers to which she surrendered herself most of all were those of repentance. On her way home at an early hour when she met no one but bricklayers going to work or men sweeping the street, and everybody within the houses was still asleep, Natasha experienced a feeling new to her, a sense of the possibility of correcting her faults, the possibility of a new, clean life, and of happiness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Con la muerte todo quedará salvado: el oprobio y la deshonra de Alexiéi Alexándrovich y de Seriozha y mi terrible vergüenza. Si muero se arrepentirá, lo sentirá, me amará y sufrirá»
~ Leo Tolstoy
Basta que pensemos, queridos hermanos y hermanas, en la vida que llevamos, basta que pensemos que continuamente despertamos la colera de Dios, y hacemos sufrir a su divino Hijo para que comprendamos que no podemos ser perdonados. Una ruina espantosa nos amenaza, sufrimientos eternos nos esperan. ¿Y como salvarnos?... ¿Cómo huir, hermanos, de este incendio terrible? ¡Ah! Ya arde la casa y no hay salida que nos dé paso!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Listen to the one who has not been wounded, the one who says, 'It is not good that man should be alone.' Recall your longing to the loneliness where it was born, so that when she appears, she will stand before you, not against you. Refine your longing here, in the small silver music of her preparations, under the low-built shelter of repentance.
~ Leonard Cohen
Refine your longing here, in the small silver music of her preparations, under the low-built shelter of repentance.
~ Leonard Cohen
And that was my mistake I didn't kill the snake I gave the snake a break Unbiblical
~ Leonard Cohen
Such a sinning, repenting ''easy believeism'' dishonors the blood and prostitutes the altar.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Repentance is a change of mind about God, about sin, and about hell!
~ Leonard Ravenhill
The man whose little sermon is ''repent'' sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man—''off with his head!' You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven. —JOSEPH PARKER
~ Leonard Ravenhill
God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.
~ Leslie Stephen
God is gracious and compassionate to the saint and unrepentant sinner alike, but he does not have a close relationship with both. He says our sins separate us from him
~ Leslie Vernick
Test the other person. See how he responds to you when you don't give him what he wants. If you don't see consistent changes in the way he thinks, acts, and interacts with you and others, don't for a minute believe his words or his profuse tears. (Proverbs 26:23-24) Jesus said, "Produce fruit in keeping with repentance." (Matthew 3:8.)
~ Leslie Vernick
Contrary to what destructive people will say, the most loving thing we can do for them is hold them accountable for their actions. This indeed may cost us sacrifice and suffering. We do this not only for our benefit but with the hope that as we draw a line in the sand and say "no more" they will wake up to their own sinfulness and repent.
~ Leslie Vernick
And many a time, towards the end of life, does the genius repent of his choice. "It would be better not to startle the world, but to live at one with it," says Ibsen in his last drama. Genius is a wretched, blind maniac, whose eccentricities are condoned because of what is got from him.
~ Lev Shestov
A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble.
~ lewis c s
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
~ lewis c s