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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.
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.
When the scourge
Inexorable, and the torturing hour
Calls us to penance.
When prodigals return great things are done.
When prodigals return great things are done.
What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when read more
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!
Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking.
I shall be out of heart shortly, read more
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.
God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
[Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]
God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
[Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]
