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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? -- George Eliot
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. -- F. H. Bradley
There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven. -- Alice Cary
Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life. -- William Henry Houghton
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world? -- Charles Dickens
He who is accustomed to give account of his life at confession here will not fear to give an answer at the terrible judgment-seat of Christ. It is for this purpose that the mild tribunal of penitence was here initiated, in order that we, being cleansed and amended through penitence here below, may give an answer without shame at the terrible judgment-seat of Christ. -- John of Kronstadt
A life which has never been laid open in penitence and faith before God has little permanence in eternity. -- R.K. Harrison
Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence. -- Ralph Venning
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
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

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