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Quotes about Repentance


Forethought is easy, repentance hard.

Chinese Proverb

From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.

Italian Proverb

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

J. C. Macaulay

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.

Moorish Proverb

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

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

Henry Miller

True repentance is to cease from sinning.

Ambrose Of Milan

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Benjamin Franklin

Bad men are full of repentance.

Benjamin Aristotle

The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is--to die.

Oliver Goldsmith

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Arabian Proverb

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