Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.
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.
Bad men are full of repentance.
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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