You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Repentance is good, but innocence better
Repentance is good, but innocence better
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is read more
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
God dropped a spark down into everyone,
And if we find and fan it to a blaze,
read more
God dropped a spark down into everyone,
And if we find and fan it to a blaze,
It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,
And light the wandering out of stony ways.
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.
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
Bad men are full of repentance.
Bad men are full of repentance.
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
