Francis Quarles Quotes About Repentance

Quotes about: Repentance

• He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

  Francis Quarles

  Hats, Repentance, Pardon

• Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

  Francis Quarles

  Sweet, Sleep, Bed Of Roses

  Francis Quarles (1859). “Emblems, divine and moral, with a sketch of the life and times of the author”, p.23

• Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit
  And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd:
  'Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit:
  And not commit those sins thou hast bewail' d.
  He that bewails and not forsakes them too;
  Confesses rather what he means to do.

  Francis Quarles

  Mean, Cry, Sin

• If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

  Francis Quarles

  Parent, Honor, Desire

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