Sunday, 25 August 2013

Repentance - Quotes

Genuine repentance must bear the seal of a corrected life. - Lewis F. Korns

It is a great deal easier to commit a second sin, than it was to commit the first; and a great deal harder to repent of a second, than it was to repent of the first. - Benjamin Whichcote

It is good for a man to repent of his sins; but better for him had he never sinned. - William Scott Downey

Remorse is the poison of life, and repentance its cure. - Eliza Cook

Repentance is the debt one owes to virtue. - Edward Counsel

Some plants of the bitterest root have the whitest and sweetest blossoms; so the bitterest wrong has the sweetest repentance. - Henry Ward Beecher

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel. - Benjamin Whichcote

When we have heartily repented of a wrong, we should let all the waves of forgetfulness roll over it, and go forward unburdened to meet the future. - Henry Ward Beecher

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