#repent

The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth. ↗

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#repentance #gospel

Repentance is but want of power to sin. ↗

— John Dryden

#repentance #sin #want

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. ↗

— Voltaire

#every #goes #imprudent #least #repent

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#convenient #people #repent #seldom #then

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor #life #love #marriage #matrimony

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. ↗

— George Eliot

#death #never #our #repent #severity

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

#been #book #books #cannot #devil

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

We never repent of having eaten too little. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#having #little #never #repent #too

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