Definition of Repentance

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

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

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
Naguib Mahfouz

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
Edwin Louis Cole

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

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

Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Beverly Sills

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

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

But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.
Archibald Alexander

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

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
William Drummond

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.
Patrick Gordon

Repentance is accepted remorse.
Sophie Swetchine

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

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.
Desmond Harrington

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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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