Penitence Quotes

20 quotes by 16 authors

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the… — C.S. Lewis
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which… — Charles Dickens
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? — George Eliot
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when… — John Stott
Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with… — John Climacus
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various… — William Davenant
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. — F. H. Bradley
All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who is accustomed to give account of his life at confession here will not fear to give an answer at the terrible judgment-seat of… — John of Kronstadt
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death;… — Leo Tolstoy
If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities,… — Frederic Dan Huntington
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty… — C.S. Lewis
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself… — Robert Louis Stevenson
How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought, in spite of… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all… — George Eliot
Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
And seldom if ever do I leave the pulpit without a sense of partial failure, a mood of penitence, a cry to God for forgiveness,… — John Stott

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