Repentance Quotes

Repentance for one's evil deeds is the safeguard of life. (Democritus)
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. View quote
William Hazlitt
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. View quote
Pythagoras
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. View quote
Horace Mann
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. View quote
Naguib Mahfouz
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done as a fear of the ill that may befall us. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
For someone admitting guilt she sounded remarkably void of repentance. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. View quote
Gilbert Parker
Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us. (Ambrose)
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. View quote
Kenneth Scott Latourette
Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be much more ready to accord to man that superiority which he claims; but as the facts stand disclosed by the sacred historian, it appears to me that to say the least, there was as much weakness exhibited by Adam as by Eve. They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality. View quote
Sarah Grimké
The chief danger of the 20th century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell. View quote
William Booth
If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this : a deep regret for many bitter words I have used in my life, deep sincere repentance for my violence of language. But I hope they will be forgiven me by God and man, because not once in all my life have I attacked anybody unjustly from my point of view, and without believing it was my duty to do so. View quote
Henri Bourassa
Allah wanted the people who have made sins to turn from their sins and make up for them in order to be near to Allah through gaining His satisfaction, for He has promised to accept their repentance and forgive the sinner. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection. View quote
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter - and the Bird is on the Wing. View quote
Omar Khayyám
Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction. View quote
John Calvin
I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him. View quote
Ali
If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe. (William Blake)
Don't punish people who repent; heal them. I don't believe that private sin requires public rebuke or removal from office if repentance is taking place. However, when no evidence of true repentance exists, then discipline is in order. View quote
Ted Haggard
Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker. View quote
Joseph H. Hertz
You, mad to expect repentance, Tear your robe all you want; I will never repent! View quote
Abu Nuwas
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci