Quotes about repentance

Bad men are full of repentance.

— Aristotle

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

— Willard Beecher

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

— Josh Billings

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

— Josh Billings

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

— Francis H. Bradley

The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.

— Walter Brower

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.

— Sir Thomas Browne

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

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

— Lord Byron

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

— John Dryden

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

— Benjamin Franklin

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

— Thomas Fuller

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Classic 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.

— Aldous Huxley

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

— J. C. Macaulay

True repentance is to cease from sinning.

— Ambrose of Milan

Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.

— Henry Miller

One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

— Ogden Nash

Repentance won't cure mischief.

— Gaelic Proverb

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

— Francis Quarles

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

But with morning cool repentance came.

— Sir Walter Scott

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

— Seneca

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

— Robert Smith

Repentance is accepted remorse.

— Anne Sophie Swetchine