<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Repentance - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men are full of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men are full of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forethought is easy, repentance hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forethought is easy, repentance hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53838]]></link><description><![CDATA[REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True repentance is to cease from sinning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53840]]></link><description><![CDATA[True repentance is to cease from sinning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53842]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is another name for aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is another name for aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath  Repented o'er his doom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath  Repented o'er his doom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53831]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  And presently repair to Crosby House;   Where--after I have solemnly interred    At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king--     And wet his grave with my repentant tears--      I will with all expedient duty see you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang  Shoots through the conscious heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang  Shoots through the conscious heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.  [Lat., Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via.   Quem peonitet peccasse, paene est innocens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53827]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53828]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot repent?   O wretched state? O bosom black as death!    O limed soul, that struggling to be free     Art more engaged!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He comes never late who comes repentant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53820]]></link><description><![CDATA[He comes never late who comes repentant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53821]]></link><description><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,   And light the wandering out of stony ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53822]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53823]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But with the morning cool repentance came. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53825]]></link><description><![CDATA[But with the morning cool repentance came.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53813]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When prodigals return great things are done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When prodigals return great things are done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53816]]></link><description><![CDATA[When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman, amends may never come to late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman, amends may never come to late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restore to God His due in tithe and time; A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Restore to God His due in tithe and time; A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is good, but innocence better ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is good, but innocence better]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53809]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We make the communications clear for a people who know. (The Immunity 9.11)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,  If I have done amiss, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53810]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,  If I have done amiss, impute it not!   The best may err, but you are good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. [It., D'uomo e il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53811]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. [It., D'uomo e il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono  Scerne il dolor del fallo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53804]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance follows hasty counsels. [Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance follows hasty counsels. [Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sudden friendship, sure repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sudden friendship, sure repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25176]]></link><description><![CDATA[From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2838</guid></item></channel></rss>