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God will pardon me. It's his business. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. (Quote by - Seneca)

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. (Quote by - J. C. Macaulay)

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. (Quote by - Beverly Sills)

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. (Quote by - Gilbert Parker)

But with the morning cool repentance came. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)

O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

True repentance is to cease from sinning. (Quote by - Ambrose Of Milan)

I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae. (Quote by - A.A. Dowty)

Repentance is another name for aspiration. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways. (Quote by - John Masefield)

Restore to God His due in tithe and time; A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate. (Quote by - George Herbert)

When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour Calls us to penance. (Quote by - John Milton)

That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner, And presently repair to Crosby House; Where--after I have solemnly interred At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king-- And wet his grave with my repentant tears-- I will with all expedient duty see you. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he. (Quote by - Walter Brower)

Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath Repented o'er his doom. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

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. (Quote by - Horace Mann )

Repentance is but want of power to sin. (Quote by - John Dryden)

Bad men are full of repentance. (Quote by - Aristotle)

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. (Quote by - Francis H. Bradley)

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

Woman, amends may never come to late. (Quote by - Robert Greene and Thomas Lodge)

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance. (Quote by - Patrick Gordon)

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

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