Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking


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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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