Sayings about Repentance
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. ~ Latin Proverbs
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking. ~ Spanish Proverb
From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance. ~ Traditional Proverb
If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die. ~ Traditional Proverb
Never repent a good action. ~ Danish Proverb
Repentance is the spring beneath our virtues. ~ Chinese Proverb
From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. ~ Italian Proverb
A wicked book cannot repent. ~ Traditional Proverb
The best part of repentance is a little sinning. ~ Arabian Proverb
Forethought is easy, repentance hard. ~ Chinese Proverb
Quickly done; long repented. ~ Dutch Proverb
Repentance prolongs a man’s life. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Speech is often repented, silence never. ~ Danish Proverb
Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance. ~ Dutch Proverb
Wrath begins in madness and ends in repentance. ~ Arabian Proverb
Marry in haste and repent at leisure. ~ Dutch Proverb
Marry in Lent, and you’ll live to repent. ~ Traditional Proverb
Repentance costs dear. ~ French Proverb
Repentance won’t cure mischief. ~ Scottish Proverb
Take nothing in hand that may bring repentance. ~ Dutch Proverb
Rejoiced in youth, repented in age. ~ German Proverb
Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Amendment is repentance. ~ Traditional Proverb
To spend the night in anger is better than to spend it repenting. ~ Senegalese Proverb
Short acquaintance brings repentance. ~ English Proverb
The sin for which you repent is the father of virtue; but a virtue that you talk about, is the mother of sin. ~ Malagasy Proverbs
Sinning is the best part of repentance. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
Confession is the first step to repentance. ~ English Proverbs
Don’t trust the horses if they run away, or the whores if they repent. ~ Tunisian Proverb
Better a night full of anger than a night full of repentance. ~ Hebrew Proverb
It is easier not to commit a sin than to repent it. ~ Arabian Proverb
You’ll repent if you marry, and repent if you don’t. ~ Traditional Proverb
There is no repentance after death. ~ Russian Proverb
Quotations about Repentance
It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance. ~ Benjamin Franklin
True repentance also involves reform. ~ Hosea Ballou
The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone. ~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Repentance is the debt one owes to virtue. ~ Edward Counsel
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. ~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them. ~ Thomas Sherlock
True repentance is to cease from sin. ~ Saint Ambrose
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Repentance is a goddess and the preserver of those who have erred. ~ Flavius Claudius Julianus
It is good for a man to repent of his sins; but better for him had he never sinned. ~ William Scott Downey
People don’t do what they believe in, they just do what’s most convenient, then they repent. ~ Bob Dylan
Repentance is a magistrate that exacts the strictest duty and humility. ~ Lord Clarendon,
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hath not promised life till we repent. ~ Francis Quarles
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. ~ Publilius Syrus
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven. ~ Lewis Wallace
God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. ~ Seneca
Let not neither the tears of natural tenderness, nor the sudden terrors of conscious guilt, be mistaken for genuine repentance. ~ John Thornton
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Repentance is accepted remorse. ~ Anne Sophie Swetchine
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone. ~ Benjamin Whichcote
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Repentance may be old fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. ~ J. C. Macaulay
True repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. ~ Bishop Robert South
Repentance is but want of power to sin. ~ John Dryden
Repentance, without amendment, is like continually pumping without mending the leak. ~ Lewis W. Dilwyn
What is past is past. There is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. ~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong — it can end everything. ~ Henry Miller
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. ~ Benjamin Franklin
When we have heartily repented of a wrong, we should let all the waves of forgetfulness roll over it, and go forward unburdened to meet the future. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Late repentance is seldom true, but true repentance is never too late. ~ Ralph Venning
Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. ~ – Orville Dewey
Repentance is nothing but mockery when it comes too late. ~ Edward Counsel
Repentance is heart’s sorrow, and a clear life ensuing. ~ William Shakespeare
Well, I’ll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. ~ William Shakespeare,
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He that does not repent, sins again. ~ Benjamin Whichcote
True repentance is to cease from sinning. ~ Ambrose of Milan
It is a great deal easier to commit a second sin, than it was to commit the first; and a great deal harder to repent of a second, than it was to repent of the first. ~ Benjamin Whichcote
He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent. ~ Seneca
Repentance is but want of power to sin. ~ John Dryden
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future. ~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
Repentance hath a purifying power, and every tear is of a cleansing virtue; but these penitential clouds must be still kept dropping: one shower will not suffice; for repentance is not one single action, but a course. ~ Bishop Robert South
True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. ~ Robert Smith
Remorse is the poison of life, and repentence its cure. ~ Eliza Cook
Repentance is second innocence. ~ Louis Gabriel A. Bonald
To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another. ~ Frederick William Robertson
Genuine repentance must bear the seal of a corrected life. ~ Lewis F. Korns
If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder. ~ John Bunyan
