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Penitence Quotes by George Eliot
- Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
- 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…
More Penitence Quotes
- Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — 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… — 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… — 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… — John Stott
- Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — Leo Tolstoy