#repent

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 G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

— Jose Bergamin

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If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. ↗

— Jesus Christ

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. ↗

— William Congreve

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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

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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. ↗

— Horace Mann

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I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

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