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Repentance Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.
- Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it…
- As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.
- Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms,…
- My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and…
- [Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind…
- We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or…
- The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.
- We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in…
More Repentance Quotes
- Bad men are full of repentance. — Aristotle
- The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek… — Ezra Taft Benson
- To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment. — Jose Bergamin
- Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. — Ambrose Bierce
- Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. — Thomas Carlyle
- There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and… — Abba Hillel Silver
- Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough… — Eric Milner-White
- Confession without repentance is just bragging. — Unknown Author
- True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ,… — George Whitefield
- Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies. — Michel de Montaigne
- Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it. — John Climacus