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Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed
Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed
Repentance is good, but innocence better
Repentance is good, but innocence better
When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.
When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.
Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through the conscious heart.
Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through the conscious heart.
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand
drachmae.
I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand
drachmae.
