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• Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

  Bonnell Thornton

  Men, Reform, Path

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• A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Reading, Ignorance

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• God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

  Seneca the Younger

  Firsts, Repentance

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 665-66, De Beneficiis, VI. 23, 1922.

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• As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent

  Socrates

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

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• May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Sweet, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.164, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to “re-turn” toward God.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Voice, Appeals, Chastisement

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• It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Foolish, Repentance

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• Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

  Robert Herrick

  Innocent, Repentance, Transgression

  Robert Herrick (1825). “The poetical works of Robert Herrick”, p.98

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• Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fantasy, Sin, Repentance

  Michel de Montaigne (1603). “Essayes”, p.46

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• We never repent of having eaten too little.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Food, Weight Loss

  Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 21 February (1825)

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• Repentance is but want of power to sin.

  John Dryden

  Power, Want, Sin

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 813

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• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  Dale Carnegie

  Time, Travel, Life And Love

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.54, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Adversity, Sleep

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1856). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau”, p.110

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• Repentance is another name for aspiration.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Names

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• Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

  Henry Miller

  Strong, Sin, Repentance

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.203, New Directions Publishing

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• A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, World, Spirit

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell!

  Billy Sunday

  Names, Hell, Ministers

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

  Josh Billings

  God, People, Wicked

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• When we repent, the Lord allows us to put the mistakes of the past behind us.

  C. Scott Grow

  Mistake, Past, Lord

  "The Miracle of the Atonement". C. Scott Grow's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2011.

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• Repentance is being sorry enough to quit your sin. You will never know the forgiving mercy of God while you are still wedded to your sins. Repentance is the soul's divorce from sin, but it will always be joined to faithRepentance that is not joined to faith is a legalistic repentanceProfessed faith that is not joined to repentance is a spurious faith, for true faith is faith in Christ to save me not in but from my sin. Repentance and faith are inseparable, and 'unless you repent you will all likewise perish' (Luke 13:3).

  Albert Martin

  Sorry, Divorce, Mercy Of God

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• What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Past, Men, Energy

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• Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

  William Congreve

  Marriage, Grief, High Heels

  "The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With Biographical and Critical Notices".

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• A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Life Is, Begin Again

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• Each person we meet on a daily basis who does not know Christ is hell-bound. That may make some folks bristle-but it's a fact. When we refuse to warn people that their actions and lifestyles have eternal consequences, we're not doing them any favors. If everybody feels good about his or her sin, why would anyone repent?

  Franklin Graham

  People, Feel Good, May

  Franklin Graham (1998). “Living beyond the limits : a life in sync with God”

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• Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.

  Steven Furtick

  Regret, Passivity Is, Should Have

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