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

Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you.

Bruce Wilkinson

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Pythagoras

Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.

Meir Soloveichik

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, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us.

Henry B. Eyring

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

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

Saint Basil

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

Ezra Taft Benson

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

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

Naguib Mahfouz

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Charles Simmons

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

John Dryden

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

Thomas Carlyle

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

Desmond Harrington

Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence.

David A. Bednar

Bad men are full of repentance.

Aristotle

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

I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.

Tasha Smith

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Sophie Swetchine

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

William Hazlitt

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

Monica Johnson

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

Jose Bergamin

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

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.

Ezra Taft Benson

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