#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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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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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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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. ↗

— Ted Chiang

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What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda ↗

— Ouida

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But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God's love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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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

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

— Voltaire

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