“ The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday. ”
- Thomas Ybarra- Copy
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“ Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
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“ We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil. ”
- Baruch Spinoza- Copy
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“ God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. ”
- St. Augustine- Copy
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“ Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. ”
- Charles Williams- Copy
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“ Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath Repented o'er his doom. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
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“ And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? / When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ He used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? O wretched state? O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engaged! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner, And presently repair to Crosby House; Where — after I have solemnly interred At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king — And wet his grave with my repentant tears — I will with all expedient duty see you. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall, he would be willing to repeat. ”
- Francis Herbert Bradley- Copy
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“ The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he. ”
- Walter Brower- Copy
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