#repent

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— William Congreve

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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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Repentance is but want of power to sin. ↗

— John Dryden

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

— George Eliot

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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

#conscious #divine #faults #greatest #man

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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Christ's atonement fully satisfied the demands of God's righteousness, so forgiveness and mercy are guaranteed to those who receive Christ in humble, repentant faith. ↗

— John MacArthur

#christian-behavior #repentance #faith