#repentance

O Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils,cold,, and hunger, great need makes me entreat my recompense. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#repentance #sorrowful #inspirational

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves. ↗

— R.C. Sproul

#hypocrisy #repentance #faith

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#connection #curable #doses #enthusiasm #experience

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

— Edwin Louis Cole

#prodigal #rebellion #reconciliation #repentance #restoration

Repentance is but want of power to sin. ↗

— John Dryden

#repentance #sin #want

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#called #citadel #completely #dark #did

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

— Jose Bergamin

#offers #only #punishment #repentance #sin

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

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#end #fraud #in the end #most #part

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