Repentance
The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin.
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Repentance Quotations
Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Ambrose Bierce
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
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
Edwin Louis Cole
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
Naguib Mahfouz
Repentance Translations
repentance in Dutch is berouw, boetvaardigheid, inkeer
repentance in French is repentir
repentance in German is Reue
repentance in Spanish is arrepentimiento
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