Repentance Quotes

20 quotations about Repentance
Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle · Repentance
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
Henry Ward Beecher · Repentance
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Willard Beecher · Repentance
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Josh Billings · Repentance
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
Francis H. Bradley · Repentance
The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.
Walter Brower · Repentance
The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Lord Byron · Repentance
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden · Repentance
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
Benjamin Franklin · Repentance
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Thomas Fuller · Repentance
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J. C. Macaulay · Repentance
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
Ambrose of Milan · Repentance
Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
Henry Miller · Repentance
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Ogden Nash · Repentance
Repentance won't cure mischief.
Gaelic Proverb · Repentance
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
Francis Quarles · Repentance
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau · Repentance
But with morning cool repentance came.
Sir Walter Scott · Repentance
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
Seneca · Repentance
Repentance is accepted remorse.
Anne Sophie Swetchine · Repentance

Authors on Repentance

Aristotle Henry Ward Beecher Willard Beecher Josh Billings Francis H. Bradley Walter Brower Lord Byron John Dryden Benjamin Franklin Thomas Fuller Gaelic Proverb J. C. Macaulay Ambrose of Milan Henry Miller Ogden Nash Francis Quarles Jean Jacques Rousseau Sir Walter Scott Seneca Anne Sophie Swetchine