Repentance And Forgiveness Quotes

• Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Faults, Conscious

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• No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Pain

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

  Jose Bergamin

  Forgiveness, Punishment, Sin

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• Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.

  John the Baptist

  Heaven, Jesus Christ, Kingdoms

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• Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

  Ted Chiang

  Past, Atonement, Enough

  Ted Chiang (2007). “The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate”, Subterranean

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• I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance and hatred. There is so great a need for repentance and forgiveness. It is the great principle emphasized in all of scripture, both ancient and modern. Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Thinking, Hatred, Miracle

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

  William Hazlitt

  Forgiveness, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.94

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• I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

  Michael Jackson

  Forgiveness, Biblical, Christ On The Cross

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• Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to correct and overcome the consequences of sin. The gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides us at all times and at all places with the blessings of repentance and forgiveness.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Children, Blessing

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• Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

  Billy Graham

  Holy Days, Years, Community

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• This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the contrary, God's mercy is a great gift of grace precisely because sins are sins and they call for repentance and forgiveness.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Stress, Mean, Thinking

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• The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Stress, Integrity, Divorce

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.155, Harmony

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• If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

  J. Golden Kimball

  Forgiveness, Discouraged, Repentance

  J. Golden Kimball (2008). “J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons”, p.122, Latter-day Publishing

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