Quotes: Repentance

Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

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

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

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.

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.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.