Top 33 Quotes About Penitence
#1. Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
John Calvin
#2. If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life
unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.
Frederic Dan Huntington
#3. A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in eternity.
R.K. Harrison
#4. To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have done nothing if he didn't do that! His whole life would have been useless, all his penitence wasted, and there would be only one thing left to say: What is the point?
Victor Hugo
#5. Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.
John Climacus
#6. The inward sighs of humble penitence
Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns
Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.
Joanna Baillie
#7. I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#8. Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life.
William Henry Houghton
#9. Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence".
Ron Suskind
#10. No person can be his own saviour ... An individual must come before God in penitence, confess his sin and obtain pardon from a merciful God who repudiates sin but shows covenant love to the sinner.
R.K. Harrison
#11. Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?
C.S. Lewis
#12. All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost.
Louis Claude De Saint-Martin
#13. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.
Charles Brent
#15. The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.
John Stott
#16. It's not my business to try and make God think like me ... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#17. The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.
Leo Tolstoy
#18. With tears of penitence and poignant, tender anguish, he will exclaim: 'Others are better than I, they wanted to save me, not to ruin me!' Oh, this act of mercy is so easy for you, for in the absence of anything like real evidence it will be too awful for you to pronounce: 'Yes, he is guilty.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#19. He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds
thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.
Theodore Parker
#20. Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#21. But I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#22. The incarnation of God is a necessity of human nature. If we reap and truly have a Father, we must be able to clasp His feet in our penitence, and to lean on His breast in our weary sorrowfulness.
Charles Deems
#23. Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or is intent upon committing it.
Catherine Of Genoa
#24. Pardon without penitence is a delusion which simple honesty requires that we expose for what it is.
A.W. Tozer
#25. Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
C.S. Lewis
#26. Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they
know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
George Eliot
#27. True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
F.H. Bradley
#28. and for the first time began to understand the desperate game that we play in life; and how a thing once done is not to be changed or remedied, by any penitence. But
Robert Louis Stevenson
#29. There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance;
else noise of wars would unmake heaven.
Alice Cary
#30. Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
George Eliot
#31. You must forgive them, my child. Forgiveness is a part of penitence.
Frederick Forsyth
#32. Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.
Ralph Venning
