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The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.
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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
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The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less
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The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.
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There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for a soldier who returns after fleeing, and who valiantly pursues the enemy, than for one who never turned back, but who never acted valiantly either. A farmer has greater love for land which bears fruitfully, after he has cleared it of thorns, than for land which never had thorns but which never yielded a fruitful harvest.
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‘Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail’d: ‘Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit: And not commit those sins thou hast bewail’ d. He that bewails and not forsakes them too; Confesses rather what he means to do.
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To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
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To do so no more is the truest repentance.
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To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. [It., D’uomo e il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono Scerne il dolor del fallo.]
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To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.
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To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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True repentance also involves reform.
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True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.
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True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God’s love.
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True repentance is to cease from sinning.
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True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.
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Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath Repented o’er his doom.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail
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Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.
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