Repentance is the activity of reviewing one's actions and feeling contrition or regret for past wrongs. It generally involves a commitment to personal change and resolving to live a more responsible and humane life. In religious contexts it usually refers to confession to God , ceasing sin against God in order to gain forgiveness or absolution. It typically includes an admission of guilt, a promise or resolve not to repeat the offense; an attempt...
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Quotations About This Subject:
- Repentance is another name for aspiration. ,
- 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. ,
- The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity. ,
- True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. ,
- Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven. ,
- Repentance is accepted remorse. ,
- He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent. ,
- Repentance won't cure mischief. ,
- It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. ,
- But with morning cool repentance came.
