Quotes about Repent (239 quotes)

Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near. Votes: 4

John the Baptist

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Repent while there is still time to change. Votes: 4

Lailah Gifty Akita

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When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance. Votes: 4

Martin Luther

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The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven. Votes: 4

Vance Havner

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We never repent of having eaten too little. Votes: 3

Thomas Jefferson

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Repent, return and be restored by Jesus Christ. Votes: 3

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Infidels: Repent of Mohammedanism or burn in hell forever, throughout eternity. Votes: 3

J. B. Stoner

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Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied. Votes: 3

Harlan Ellison

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Repent or be damned! If you have already repented, please disregard this notice. Votes: 3

Patrick Murray

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We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. Votes: 3

Horace Walpole

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. Votes: 3

William Congreve

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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. Votes: 3

Bob Dylan

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The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were âRepent!â Votes: 3

Leonard Ravenhill

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All spiritual leaders who live in luxury cannot enter God's Paradise in Heaven. Repent or Perish. Votes: 3

Felix Wantang

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A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world. Votes: 3

Charles Spurgeon

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Tell them that everything in their life is going to have to bend to His will. Repent and believe. Votes: 3

Paul Washer

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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. Votes: 3

Josh Billings

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"Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE." Votes: 3

Michael Catt

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Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker. Votes: 3

William Shakespeare

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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. Votes: 3

Dale Carnegie

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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. Votes: 3

Mick Jagger

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I Repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my Music, and more importantly, my Life has not provoked you into Godly Jealousy or to SELL OUT MORE COMPLETELY TO JESUS! Votes: 3

Keith Green

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Repentance means to have a hearty, thorough, change of mind and it includes the idea of rejecting and renouncing the sinful, filthy lifestyle you've been living. And for the most part, fags cannot repent because they're proud of their sin. Votes: 3

Fred Phelps

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The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you've been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God. Votes: 3

Myles Munroe

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When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God. Votes: 3

John Ortberg

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God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. Votes: 2

Seneca the Younger

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Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever. Votes: 2

Thomas Secker

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Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. Votes: 2

Robert Herrick

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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. Votes: 2

Josh Billings

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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent Votes: 2

Socrates

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If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. Votes: 2

Aldous Huxley

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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. Votes: 2

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free! Votes: 2

Neal A. Maxwell

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Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back. Votes: 2

Bonnell Thornton

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Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. Votes: 2

William Shakespeare

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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. Votes: 2

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. Votes: 2

Aldous Huxley

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Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death. Votes: 2

John Owen

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To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent. Votes: 1

George Crabbe

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I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins. Votes: 1

Jean-Marie Le Pen

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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love! Votes: 1

Henry David Thoreau

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It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. Votes: 1

Muriel Spark

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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. Votes: 1

Voltaire

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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. Votes: 1

Socrates

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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. Votes: 1

George Eliot

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Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord. Votes: 1

Ezra Taft Benson

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If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be. Votes: 1

Tony Campolo

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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways. Votes: 1

Saint Ambrose

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If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon. Votes: 1

William Wallace

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True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied. Votes: 1

Lewis B. Smedes

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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. Votes: 1

George Bentham

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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. Votes: 1

Bede Griffiths

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We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin. Votes: 1

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours. Votes: 1

James E. Faust

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With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent. Votes: 1

Henry B. Eyring

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It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for forgiveness. There is someone you can forgive. There is someone you can thank. There is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it wherever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel. Votes: 1

Henry B. Eyring

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Marry in haste, repent at leisure. Votes: 0

Walter Scott

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Marry in haste, repent in leisure. Votes: 0

Frederick Tilney

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Do your duty today and repent tomorrow. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Publish in haste and repent at leisure. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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One can repent even of having repented. Votes: 0

Bernard Berenson

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Whichever you do, you will repent it. Votes: 0

Diogenes Laertius

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He that does not repent, sins again. Votes: 0

Benjamin Whichcote

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I'll repent one day, just not right now. Votes: 0

DMX

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If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes. Votes: 0

Mark Batterson

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Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent. Votes: 0

Saint John Chrysostom

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Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall Votes: 0

Kyuzo Mifune

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Doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay... Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent. Votes: 0

Mark Driscoll

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Of what did Job repent? His wonder was too small. Votes: 0

Leighton Ogg

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To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another. Votes: 0

Frederick William Robertson

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God is merciful to all who repent and turn to Him. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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Im always suspicious of people who repent of other peoples sins. Votes: 0

Jean-Marie Le Pen

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We must repent while the chance exists, to confess our sins. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent. Votes: 0

Luis Palau

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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives. Votes: 0

Moliere

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Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts. Votes: 0

Umar

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I won't go to Hell for swearing because I repent too damn fast! Votes: 0

J. Golden Kimball

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No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live. Votes: 0

Chris Murphy

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It is better to take time to consider, than find time to repent. Votes: 0

Matthew Henry

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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30. Votes: 0

Bo Jackson

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Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve. Votes: 0

Jeffrey R. Holland

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it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret. Votes: 0

Niccolo Machiavelli

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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine

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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent. Votes: 0

Samuel Richardson

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It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent Votes: 0

Hannah Arendt

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Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary. Votes: 0

Zachary Cole Smith

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It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything. Votes: 0

Giovanni Boccaccio

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Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste. Votes: 0

William Congreve

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Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent. Votes: 0

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent. Votes: 0

Ezra Taft Benson

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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin. Votes: 0

Thomas Brooks

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If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance. Votes: 0

Steven J Lawson

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He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent. Votes: 0

Francis Quarles

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The most serious will miss heaven, the unserious rebel will repent in the last hour. Votes: 0

Michael Bassey Johnson

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I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past Votes: 0

Christopher Paolini

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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. Votes: 0

D. H. Lawrence

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You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent! Votes: 0

Abu Nuwas

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I don't regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion. Votes: 0

Rumi

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There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory. Votes: 0

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent. Votes: 0

Lee Kuan Yew

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When we repent, the Lord allows us to put the mistakes of the past behind us. Votes: 0

C. Scott Grow

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To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right. Votes: 0

Timothy Keller

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For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent. Votes: 0

Brigham Young

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If I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent. Votes: 0

Rabia Basri

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We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it. Votes: 0

Richard G. Scott

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Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today. Votes: 0

Vance Havner

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Regrets won't change anything. Don't Reject yourself. Just Refrain from what you did badly; repent and move on. Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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Never REJECT yourself due to the sins you have committed. REGRET will do nothing; REPENT and do something! Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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The very first word out of Jesus; mouth in is ministry in the New Testament is clear: repent. Votes: 0

David Platt

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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may. Votes: 0

Geoffrey Chaucer

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A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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The Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent. Votes: 0

Samuel

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I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent. Votes: 0

Evelyn Waugh

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Rationalization for bad choices will not be effective, but repentance will. Those who repent will be particularly blessed by the Atonement. Votes: 0

Quentin L. Cook

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Our sins are our downfall. We must repent and return to the Lord. And He will receive and forgive us graciously. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness. Votes: 0

Timothy Keller

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We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness. Votes: 0

Augustus William Hare

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There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore. Votes: 0

Randy Travis

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Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins. Votes: 0

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king. Votes: 0

Michael Bassey Johnson

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Jesus did not call upon people to repent, or fast, or observe the sabbath. He did not threaten with hell or promise heaven. Votes: 0

Robert W. Funk

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Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness. Votes: 0

Rumi

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I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor. Votes: 0

Richard Rossi

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if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well? Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Jesus suffered deeply because He loves us deeply! He wants us to repent and be converted so that He can fully heal us. Votes: 0

Russell M. Nelson

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I prefer to suffer than repent because I stand by my decision and capable enough top pay for it Or reap the beauty later. Votes: 0

Ravindra Shukla

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No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please. Votes: 0

Charles Hodge

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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. Votes: 0

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Because God that is immutable changes what He willed, He is said to repent, although what changes is a thing and not His counsel. Votes: 0

Pope Gregory I

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Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages. Votes: 0

James M. Barrie

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The invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to "re-turn" toward God. Votes: 0

Neil L. Andersen

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The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change. Votes: 0

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face. Votes: 0

Max Muller

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You may lose paradise, but gain heaven when you rise up and repent. The success that comes after a temporal failure is an amazing spectacular! Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor

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Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God's people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God. Votes: 0

Henry Blackaby

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It is hard to repent, to admit you are wrong on faith alone before the evidence of a feeling of being forgiven and light comes. Votes: 0

Henry B. Eyring

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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 Votes: 0

Ouida

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O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret. Votes: 0

Joaquin Miller

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God understands us, He waits for us. He doesn't get tired of forgiving us. If we repent and go to him with a truly open heart. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness is the only thing. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God. Votes: 0

Clement of Alexandria

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Dirge of the dying and the stench of fear,Black souls repent as hell draws near," - Percy Pemmeney the smuggler, from Curse of Ancient Shadows. Votes: 0

Rod Tyson

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We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent. Votes: 0

Joan D. Chittister

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Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it. Votes: 0

Rob Bell

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Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead. Votes: 0

John Stott

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Even if you have done no wrong, no mistake in the last 50 years, remember the mistake you did 51 years ago and repent for it and become humble. Votes: 0

Radhanath Swami

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No matter what kind of sin you have committed, there is always forgiveness. You must repent and seek forgiveness. You can walk in the new life and light. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence. Votes: 0

L. Lionel Kendrick

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Some ministers say, 'If you don't repent you'll die and go to a place the name of which I can't pronounce.' I can! You'll go to hell! Votes: 0

Billy Sunday

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An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent. Votes: 0

Max Muller

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It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent. Votes: 0

Hannah Arendt

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Faithful parents can invite the power of heaven to influence their children. Nevertheless, those children remain agents unto themselves, and the choice to repent or not ultimately is theirs. Votes: 0

David A. Bednar

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But our highest objective should be that our children would repent from their sins, put their trust in Jesus Christ, and reflect the gospel to the world around them. Votes: 0

Carolyn Mahaney

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It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent Votes: 0

Hannah Arendt

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No matter what kind of sin you have committed, there is always forgiveness. You must repent and seek for forgiveness. You can walk in the new life and light. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God. Votes: 0

Johnny Hunt

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Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man? Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will repent of the evil which he has pronounced against you. Votes: 0

Jeremiah

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On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do. Votes: 0

Zachary Cole Smith

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We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Votes: 0

Rumi

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But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We make the communications clear for a people who know. (The Immunity 9.11) Votes: 0

quran

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It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God. Votes: 0

Bruce Wilkinson

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Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It's a dead language. The thing is, you can't un-sin. You can only repent. Votes: 0

Steven Furtick

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Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent. Votes: 0

James E. Faust

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My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator. Votes: 0

W.N.P. Barbellion

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He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins Votes: 0

St. Maximos the Confessor

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He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins... Votes: 0

Maximus the Confessor

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What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can't claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will not settle the trouble, unless you keep him under. Votes: 0

J. Golden Kimball

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It isn't enough to feel the pressure of a situation; you must repent and change your heart...When you cry out to God, let it be the beginning of consistent change in your life. Votes: 0

Terry Virgo

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There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than whether they repent of sin, believe on Christ and live holy lives. Votes: 0

J. C. Ryle

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Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade. Votes: 0

James M. Barrie

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If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him. Votes: 0

Baal Shem Tov

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If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen. Votes: 0

Richard Wurmbrand

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But what an mortal man do to secure his own salvation?" Mortal man can do just what God bids him do. Be can repent and believe. He can arise and follow Christ as Matthew did. Votes: 0

Washington Gladden

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