Repentance

(226 votes)   It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(203 votes)   Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(195 votes)   People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(171 votes)   Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(144 votes)   Repentance won't cure mischief.

Gaelic Proverbs
Sayings of Gaelic Origin

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(115 votes)   One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(109 votes)   Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.

Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author

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(107 votes)   He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

Francis Quarles
1592-1644, British Poet

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(107 votes)   Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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(92 votes)   Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

J. C. Macaulay

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(90 votes)   Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Willard Beecher

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(84 votes)   He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(80 votes)   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

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(79 votes)   True repentance is to cease from sinning.

Ambrose of Milan

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(76 votes)   The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.

Walter Brower

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