#repent

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. ↗

— George Eliot

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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

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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. ↗

— William Congreve

#haste #heels #leisure #married #pleasure

Repentance is but want of power to sin. ↗

— John Dryden

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I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

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If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. ↗

— Jesus Christ

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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. ↗

— Horace Mann

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