Top 25 Repentance Quotes of 123 - Page 3

When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

Quentin L. Cook

Commitment, Reason, Repentance

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Oscar Wilde

Pleasure, Repentance, Console

Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

Bad men are full of repentance.

Aristotle

Philosophical, Men, Repentance

Aristotle (1818). “The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics: Of Aristotle”, p.340

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

Thomas Brooks

Too Late, Repentance, Never Too Late

Thomas Brooks (1867). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.196

True repentance also involves reform.

Hosea Ballou

Reform, Repentance, True Repentance

I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance and hatred. There is so great a need for repentance and forgiveness. It is the great principle emphasized in all of scripture, both ancient and modern. Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Thinking, Repentance And Forgiveness, Hatred

America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!

Billy Sunday

America, Needs, Repentance

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

Michel de Montaigne

Fancy, Way, Repentance

Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.68

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Past, Repentance, Janus

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.39

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Josh Billings

Sin, Repentance, Easier

Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

True repentance always involves reform.

Hosea Ballou

Reform, Repentance, True Repentance

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

Friedrich Schiller

Long, Illusion, Repentance

Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.199

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Lew Wallace

Heaven, Sin, Repentance

Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Diversion Classics)”, p.482, Diversion Books

Repentance is belief in action.

J. D. Greear

Belief, Action, Repentance

J. D. Greear (2013). “Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved”, p.40, B&H Publishing Group

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

Edward Gibbon

Errors, Useless, Repentance

Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Benjamin Franklin

Money, Foolish, Repentance

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins

Augustus Hopkins Strong

May, Sin, Repentance

Augustus Hopkins Strong (2014). “Systematic Theology : Volume II (Illustrated)”, p.323, Lulu Press, Inc

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

Seneca the Younger

Firsts, Repentance, Repent

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 665-66, De Beneficiis, VI. 23, 1922.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

Honore de Balzac

Faults, Repentance, Ends

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sorrow, Sin, Repentance

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Anatole France

Confession, Repentance, Spoil

Anatole France (1911). “On Life & Letters”

Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.

Ambrose

Angel, Lord, Repentance

"Many Thoughts of Many Minds". Book by Louis Klopsch, 1896.