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Repentance Quotes - Page 4

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

Robert Herrick (1825). “The poetical works of Robert Herrick”, p.98

Repentance follows hasty counsels.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 665-66, 1922.

The dream is short, repentance long.

Friedrich Schiller (1842). “Das Lied von der Glocke, von Friedrich von Schiller: With english Translation by Thomas James Arnold”, p.11

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, New York : Harper & Row

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

Thomas Jefferson, Maria Hadfield Cosway, John P. Kaminski (1999). “Jefferson in Love: The Love Letters Between Thomas Jefferson & Maria Cosway”, p.72, Rowman & Littlefield

Forgiveness is as wide as repentance.

Marion G. Romney (1971). “Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney”

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.203, New Directions Publishing

no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.

Ethel Smyth (1940). “What happened next”, Longmans, Green

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.