Repentance Quotes - Page 18

• Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Evil, Soul, Liberty

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

  Honore de Balzac

  Powerful, Sin, Ends

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.59, 谷月社

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• Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Blood, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.176, Dial Press

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• I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Men, Games

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.343, Wildside Press LLC

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• The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

  Jon Voight

  Mistake, Ideas, Catholic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Flower, Civilization

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3037, Delphi Classics

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• The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.

  Edward Thomson

  Heart, Men, Wicked

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• Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance.

  Decimus Laberius

  Hasty

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• Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Envy, Sorrow, Siege

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

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• God is undoubtedly ready to pardon whenever the sinner turns. Therefore, he does not will his death, in so far as he wills repentance. But experience shows that this will, for the repentance of those whom he invites to himself, is not such as to make him touch all their hearts. Still, it cannot be said that he acts deceitfully; for though the external word only renders, those who hear it, and do not obey it, inexcusable, it is still truly regarded as an evidence of the grace by which he reconciles men to himself.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Grace

  John Calvin “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Facts, Politician, Modern

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Distinguished, Ought

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.527, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.

  Jerry Bridges

  Godly, Focus, Grace

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• Most Christians never associate joy with repentance. But repentance is actually the mother of all joy in Jesus. Without it, there can be no joy. Yet, any believer who walks in repentance will be flooded with the joy of the Lord.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

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• An eternal marriage is eternal. Eternal implies continuing growth and improvement. It signifies that love will grow stronger with time and that it extends beyond the grave. It means that each partner will be blessed with the company of the other partner forever. Eternal signifies repentance, forgiveness, long-suffering, patience, hope, charity, love, and humility. All of these things are involved in anything that is eternal, and surely we must learn and practice them if we intend to claim an eternal marriage.

  F. Burton Howard

  Blessed, Humility, Mean

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• All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Blood, Flesh

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.122

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• No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

  John Flavel

  Prayer, Self, Soul

  John Flavel (1875). “The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)”, p.341

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• But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Pride, Law, Punishment

  "Les Mouches (The Flies)". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre (Act 1), June 3, 1943.

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• We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Life, Thinking, Mind

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.188

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• There's no repentance in the grave.

  Isaac Watts

  Death, Graves

  'Solemn Thoughts of God and Death' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)

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• We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.

  Johan Huizinga

  Spiritual, History, Judging

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

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Grace, Preaching, Protected

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

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• Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Causes, Sin, Harm

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• The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lust, Miserable, Shame

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• Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Long, Illusion

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.199

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