| Author |
Quotes |
| A A Dowty | When prodigals return great things are done. |
| A A Dowty | I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae. |
| Ambrose Of Milan | True repentance is to cease from sinning. |
| Benjamin Franklin | It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. |
| Bidpai | Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain. |
| Francis H Bradley | True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. |
| George Crabbe | To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent! |
| Henry Miller | Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything. |
| Italian Proverb | From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. |
| J C Macaulay | Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. |
| James Thomson | Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang Shoots through the conscious heart. |
| John Masefield | God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways. |
| Josh Billings | Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. |
| Josh Billings | It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. |
| Juan de Horozco | He comes never late who comes repentant. |
| Moorish Proverb | Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking. |
| Robert Herrick | Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. |
| Thomas Gray | When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best. |
| Vittorio Alfieri | To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. |
| Walter Brower | The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he. |
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