Caught Quote by Charles R. Swindoll

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

— Honore de Balzac

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the…

— Joseph Joubert

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

— Honore de Balzac

Repentance is accepted remorse.

— Sophie Swetchine

There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

— Greg Laurie

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

— Henry Miller

“Remorse precedes true repentance. Changed behavior follows true repentance. But this necessary prelude and postlude of true repentance are not themselves the essence of…

— Bryan Chapell

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

— Anonymous

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a…

— William Carlos Williams

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

— William C. Bryant