Bereuen / Repent Zitate auf Englisch

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We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. Horace Walpole

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

George Eliot

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

Charles Spurgeon

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.

George Bentham

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.

Saint Ambrose

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

Ezra Taft Benson

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

George Eliot

In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God's grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.

Thomas Becket

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

George Crabbe

The Savior isn't our last chance; He is our only chance. Our only chance to overcome self-doubt and catch a vision of who we may become. Our only chance to repent and have our sins washed clean.

Sheri L. Dew

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

Tony Campolo

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

Jean-Marie Le Pen

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

Horace Walpole

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

William Congreve

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.

James E. Faust

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

Luis Palau

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.

Mick Jagger

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Bob Dylan

There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.

Terri Blackstock

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.

Dale Carnegie

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

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

Socrates

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.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

Muriel Spark

Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.

Henry B. Eyring

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

Josh Billings

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

Thomas Secker

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.

James E. Faust

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.

Henry B. Eyring

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.

Bruce Wilkinson

If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.

Ambrose Burnside

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.

L. Lionel Kendrick

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

Richard G. Scott

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.

William Wallace

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

Josh Billings