Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking
Moorish Proverb
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Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.
MOORISH PROVERB From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.
ITALIAN PROVERB From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.
PROVERB Repentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Repentance is another name for aspiration
HENRY WARD BEECHER Repentance is sorrow for the deed..not for getting caught.
UNKNOWN Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND "Tell me, what's Love?" said Youth, one day, To drooping Age, who crost his way, "It is a sunny hour...
THOMAS MORE Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.
KHURRAM MURAD I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with...
ROSARIA CHAMPAGNE BUTTERFIELD Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God.
FRANCINE RIVERS It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Repentance is accepted remorse.
MADAME SWETCHINE Repentance is accepted remorse.
ANNE SOPHIE SWETCHINE Repentance is accepted remorse.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
BIBLE If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sin...
JOHN BUNYAN The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not wh...
BRENNAN MANNING Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
CHINESE PROVERB Forethought is easy, repentance hard
CHINESE PROVERBS If we rebuke our heart by a calm, mild remonstrance, with more compassion for it than passion agains...
FRANCIS DE SALES Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented ...
JOSEPH JOUBERT Repentance is a lifetime self-improvement.
TOBA BETA I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH The dream is short, repentance long.
[Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
[Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod po...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes
the virtuous from the wicked.
[I...
VITTORIO ALFIERI Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
PROVERB But with the morning cool repentance came.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but
of three things. The first was th...
PLUTARCH God dropped a spark down into everyone,
And if we find and fan it to a blaze,
It'll spring up ...
JOHN MASEFIELD He comes never late who comes repentant.
JUAN DE HOROZCO Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
ROBERT HERRICK To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
GEORGE CRABBE Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to
his Creator, will be sure, early or...
BIDPAI (PILPAY) O ye powers that search
The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,
If I have done amiss,...
JOSEPH ADDISON But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We...
QURAN Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang
Shoots through...
JAMES THOMSON (1) The sinning is the best part of repentance
ARABIAN PROVERB True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
FRANCIS H. BRADLEY That it may please you leave these sad designs
To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,
An...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Under your good correction, I have seen
When, after execution, judgment hath
Repented o'er his...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking.
I shall be out of heart shortly, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when one ca...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.
WALTER BROWER God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
[Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonit...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways:
He who repents of his sins is almost inn...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree...
AMBROSE BIERCE Repentance is necessary because it shows the person how evil their sin is. True repentance leads to ...
NORM TOMLINSON POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as...
AMBROSE BIERCE The best part of repentance is little sinning
ARABIAN PROVERB For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame
CHARLES SIMMONS For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
CHARLES SIMMONS True repentance is to cease from sinning.
AMBROSE OF MILAN Confession is the first step to repentance.
ENGLISH PROVERB Repentance won't cure mischief.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
UNKNOWN Repentance won't cure mischief.
GAELIC PROVERB Repentance leads to rebirth.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love a...
FREDERICA MATHEWES-GREEN Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN The sinning is the best part of repentance.
ARABIC PROVERB The sinning is the best part of repentance.
ARABIAN PROVERB Repentance is never something to be ashamed of.
UNKNOWN The only reality is the grace of repentance.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA An arrogant laughs at repentance.
TOBA BETA Repentance leads to refreshing times.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA But with morning cool repentance came.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Bad men are full of repentance.
ARISTOTLE Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
ANATOLE FRANCE Nothing spoils a confession like repentance
ANATOLE FRANCE Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.
UNKNOWN Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.
UNKNOWN Peace, and Patience, and death with repentance.
GEORGE HERBERT Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J.C. MACAULAY Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our m...
SHARON KAY PENMAN The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.
C.S. LEWIS Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is ...
TED CHIANG It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
JIMMY BUFFETT The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
EDWIN LOUIS COLE To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an a...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
PYTHAGORAS Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
H. G. BOHN Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
PYTHAGORAS Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance
PYTHAGORAS A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do o...
THOMAS YBARRA We are announcing for the last time that we are opening the door to repentance and for those to retu...
PRINCE ABDULLAH Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest.
THALES OF MILETUS Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free o...
THADDEUS OF VITOVNICA Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentan...
BILLY GRAHAM ...as long as you imagine you are rich there is nothing to thank god for, and you cannot be aware of...
ANTHONY BLOOM She who from April dates her years,
Diamonds should wear, lest bitter tears
For vain repentanc...
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