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- 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