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1. “Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.”

Michel de Montaigne

Repentance, Will, Self-control, Human Nature, Morality

2. “Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.”

Michel de Montaigne

Vice, Repentance, Conscience, Moral Suffering, Human Psychology

3. “Repentance is a gift of God’s grace.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Repentance, Grace, Spiritual Growth, Forgiveness, Divine Gift

4. “What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?”

John Milton

Humility, Repentance, Divine Worship, Confession, Reverence

5. “If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.”

Aldous Huxley

Repentance, Behavior, Amends, Improvement, Morality, Personal Growth

6. “We acknowledge our trespass, our weakness, our fault; we acknowledge That the sin of the world is upon our heads; that the blood of the martyrs and the agony of the saints Is upon our heads. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Blessed Thomas, pray for us.”

T.S. Eliot

Guilt, Repentance, Mercy, Faith, Suffering, Redemption

7. “Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.”

Voltaire

Repentance, Prudence, Mistakes, Wisdom, Reflection, Behavior

8. “We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t.”

Elbert Hubbard

Forgiveness God, Morality, Religion, Guilt, Repentance

9. “There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sin, Forgiveness, Repentance, God, Love, Redemption

10. “I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Punishment, Repentance, Remorse, Fear, Criminal Psychology, Transformation

11. “If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.”

Buddha

Repentant Spirit, Disappearing Sins, Inner Forgiveness, Repentance, Forgiveness, Spirit

12. “Heavenly Father – take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband – Though to trust us seem to us More respectful – We are Dust – We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.”

Emily Dickinson

Supreme Iniquity, Candid Hand, Divine Trust, Faith, Forgiveness, Repentance

13. “To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.”

Benjamin Franklin

Forgiveness, Mistakes, Redemption, Repentance, Morality

14. “A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.”

C.S. Lewis

Christianity, Repentance, Morality, Human nature, Faith

15. “Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.”

C.S. Lewis

Repentance, Forgiveness, Faith, Return, Reflection

16. “A man’s very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.”

Oscar Wilde

Repentance, Moment, Dust, Sin, Reflection

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