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Quotes About Repentance

For as the Good is only a single thing, so all ways lead to the Good, even the false ones: when the repentant one follows the same way back.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
So the merman cannot belong to Agnes unless, after having made the infinite movement, the movement of repentance, he makes still one more movement by virtue of the absurd.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
repentance and remorse. The one calls us forward.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
No, sir. A sin. A suchmuch thing.
~ Salman Rushdie
The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.
~ Frank Bartleman
Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.
~ David Jeremiah
Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.
~ Laurence Sterne
God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent.
~ Alexandre Dumas
All charitable souls are requested to pray God for the sincere repentance of these two miserable creatures.
~ Alexandre Dumas
And now, madame, try to make your peace with God, for you are judged by men!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.
~ Alice Camille
Shrovetide.
~ Alison Weir
Enthusiasm, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
~ Ambrose Bierce
IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
~ Ambrose Bierce
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
~ Ambrose Bierce
el pecado es el veneno que nos hace sentir cómodos con el mundo impío y con Satanás.
~ Joel R. Beeke
Jesus calls all sinners to repent. True repentance is not a nebulous response of sorrow; it requires definite actions. Repentance so transforms the mind that it results in a changed life. Repentance does not merely say "I'm sorry" (similar to what we say when we accidentally step on someone's foot). Rather, true repentance says from the heart, "I've been wrong and grieve over my sin, but now I see the truth, and I will change my ways accordingly.
~ Joel R. Beeke
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.
~ Kevin DeYoung
Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.
~ David Platt
There's no human remedy for sin.
~ Henry R Brandt
If it's sin, that's good news! Sin is the simplest thing in the world to deal with.
~ Henry R Brandt
As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.
~ Mark Wahlberg