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The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produces amendment; and the greatest is insufficient, if it does not. - Charles Caleb Colton To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent! - George Crabbe, Tales of the Hall (bk. III, Boys at School, last line) It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct. - Theodore Ledyard Cuyler Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. - Orville Dewey Repentance, without amendment, is like continually pumping without mending the leak. - Lewis W. Dilwyn When prodigals return great things are done. - A.A. Dowty, The Siliad, in Beeton's "Christmas Annual" Repentance, A salve, a comfort, and a cordial; He that hath her, the keys of heaven hath: This is the guide, this is the post, the path. - Michael Drayton I will to-morrow, that I will, I will be sure to do it; To-morrow comes, to-morrow goes, And still thou art to do it. Thus still repentance is deferred. From one day to another: Until the day of death is come, And judgment is the other. - Hieremias Drexelius (Jeremias Drexel) Right actions for the future are the best explanations or apologies for wrong ones in the past; the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive. - Tryon Edwards If you would be good, first believe that you are bad. - Epictetus It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance. - Benjamin Franklin Place not thy amendment only in increasing thy devotion, but in bettering thy life. This is the damning hypocrisy of this age; that it slights all good morality, and spends its zeal in matters of ceremony, and a form of godliness without the power of it. - Thomas Fuller (1) I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae. - Aulus Gellius bk. I, ch. VI, 6, quoting Demosthenes to Lais My Saviour, mid life's varying scene Be Thou my stay; Guide me, through each perplexing path, To perfect day. In weakness and in sin I stand; Still faith can clasp Thy mighty hand, And follow at Thy dear command. My Saviour, I have nought to bring Worthy of Thee; A broken heart Thou wilt not spurn; Accept of me. I need Thy righteousness Divine, I plead Thy promises as mine, I perish if I am not Thine. - Elizabeth A.E. Godwin Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Oliver Goldsmith When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best. - Thomas Gray, Ode to Adversity Woman, amends may never come to late. - Robert Greene and Thomas Lodge, A Looking Glass for London and England The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings. - Eugenie de Guerin We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness. - Augustus William Hare Restore to God His due in tithe and time; A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate. - George Herbert, The Temple--The Church Porch (st. 65) Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. - Robert Herrick, Hesperides--Penitence He comes never late who comes repentant. - Juan de Horozco, Manasses, Rey de India (Jorn, III) Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more. - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt) It is never too late with us, so long as we are still aware of our faults and bear them impatiently,--so long as noble propensities, greedy of conquest, stir within us. - Hermann Jacobi Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Displaying page 2 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5
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