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“Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.”
Honoré de Balzac
,
Séraphîta
“ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.”
Ambrose Bierce
,
The Devil's Dictionary
“There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.”
Victor Hugo
,
Les Misérables
“repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself,...”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble”
C. S. Lewis
,
Mere Christianity
“To err is common To all men, but the man who having erred Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.”
Sophocles
,
Antigone
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justice
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Les Misérables
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The Devil's Dictionary
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