Repent Quotes

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.

Good, Bad, Silence

We never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas Jefferson

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

Seldom, Convenient

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates

Marriage, Sure, Celibacy

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
Henry David Thoreau

Love, May, Occasion

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

Goes, Astray, Soonest

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

Success, Age, Men

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

Holy, Spirit, Create

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

Death, Tenderness, Severity

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot

Great, Death, Tenderness

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Josh Billings

God, Wicked, Thanking

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

Power, Ignorance, Bad

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
Josh Billings

Committed, Sins, Commit

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

Married, Pleasure, Grief

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

Men, Future, Past

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

Life, Self, Dark

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
Horace Walpole

Thoughts, Often, Second

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.
Mick Jagger

Life, Happy, Fashion

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
Tony Campolo

God, Country, America

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.
Luis Palau

Bad, Fail, Worse

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
Thomas Secker

Forever, Persons

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.
Maria Monk

Wise, True, Thought

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

Sins, Suspicious

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Muriel Spark

Love, Impossible, Exist

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

Help, Show, Seek

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
George Crabbe

Grieve, Sigh, Recede

I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
George Bentham

Long, Career, Reason

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