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The sinning is the best part of repentance
The sinning is the best part of repentance
But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We read more
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)
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes read more
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
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways:
He who repents of his sins read more
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.]
He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but
of three things. The first read more
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.
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.
When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.
Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to
his Creator, will be sure, early read more
Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to
his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.
