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Quotes About Repentance

Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
~ John Dryden
Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I'd assassinated, that I unravel inside.
~ Cheyenne McCray, The First Sin
There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.
~ Abba Hillel Silver
A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.
~ C. S. Lewis
Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.
~ Teresa of Avila
Think of the moment you count most foul in your life; conjure it, supplicate, pray to it; your face is bleak, you retract, you dare not remember it.
~ Hilda Doolittle
No murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
~ John the Apostle
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of SpringThe Winter garment of Repentance fling:The Bird of Time has but a little wayTo fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.
~ Edward Gibbon
Guilty, forgive me, Lord, I cry; Pursued by foes I come; A sinner, save me, or I die; An outcast, take me home.
~ EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH
But Lord,Be merciful to me, a fool!
~ Edward Rowland Sill
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Death: To stop sinning suddenly.
~ Elbert Hubbard
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
~ Elbert Hubbard
We were supposed to go to the sea and we hadn't gone, I had been punished for nothing. A mysterious inversion of attitudes had occurred: I, despite the rain, would have continued on the road, I felt far from everything and everyone, and distance--I discovered for the first time--extinguished in me every tie and every worry; Lila had abruptly repented of her own plan, she had given up the sea, she had wanted to return to the confines of the neighborhood. I couldn't figure it out.
~ Elena Ferrante
Jesus, according to both St Matthew and St Luke, spent forty days in the wilderness undergoing temptation by the devil before returning to proclaim his message of repentance and salvation
~ Anthony Storr
Judas does not love. He does not love and that is why he betrays. He does not love, and that is why, having cast aside treason because it horrifies him, he ends by detesting himself without repenting. Self-hatred is salutary only when associated with the love of God. Alone it is homicidal; it has the power to destroy everything and it has no power at all to repair.
~ Antonin Sertillanges
Guilty conscience goes to Crafty Guru to atone for own sin.
~ Anuj Somany
Taking a dip in water anywhere can only clean the body ,but could never cleanse the sins committed and that remains always in the soul.
~ Anuj Somany