True repentance is to cease from sinning.

True repentance is to cease from sinning.

Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, read more

Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back

The dream is short, repentance long.
[Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]

The dream is short, repentance long.
[Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]

Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to
his Creator, will be sure, early read more

Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to
his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.

But with the morning cool repentance came.

But with the morning cool repentance came.

Repentance is good, but innocence better

Repentance is good, but innocence better

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.

Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.

Woman, amends may never come to late.

Woman, amends may never come to late.

What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when read more

What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when one cannot repent?
O wretched state? O bosom black as death!
O limed soul, that struggling to be free
Art more engaged!