#repent

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

— Charles Spurgeon

#believe #create #holy #more #repent

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

— Naguib Mahfouz

#accused #between #choice #given #heresy

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

#begin #brought #chastisement #child #conduct

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

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#i #other #people #repent #sins

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#actions #appalling #bad #bad people #generation

Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it. ↗

— Richard G. Scott

#help #how #out #repent #seek

What rights are there for homosexuals? The only right is to be led to repentance. To live in such defilement of the body, in such dishonour, in such abomination, while all the time asking for liberties the church cannot grant, is unbelievable. ↗

— Pope Shenouda III

#body #cannot #church #dishonour #grant

...in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into... ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#repentance #life

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#prodigal #rebellion #reconciliation #repentance #restoration

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

#come #doctor #healthy #i #need