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it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.
Niccolo Machiavelli
It is preferable to take action and seek forgiveness than to remain inactive and bemoan the consequences.
2.
If I repent now will God forgive me?
No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.
Rabia Basri
'If I atone now will God pardon me? No, but if God pardons you, you will atone.'
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I'll repent one day, just not right now.
DMX
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Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.
Umar
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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
Bo Jackson
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A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
C. S. Lewis
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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
Saint Augustine
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It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.
Giovanni Boccaccio
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It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.
C. S. Lewis
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The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.
Democritus
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We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!
Neal A. Maxwell
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He who repents his sin and acknowledges it, is forgiven.
Wilhelm Grimm
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It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.
Luis Palau
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Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
Moliere
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
D. H. Lawrence
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Because God that is immutable changes what He willed, He is said to repent, although what changes is a thing and not His counsel.
Pope Gregory I
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We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
Horace Walpole
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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
Voltaire
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Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve.
Jeffrey R. Holland
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Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.
Rumi
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It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent
Hannah Arendt
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Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.
William Shakespeare
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It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.
Matthew Henry
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
Samuel Richardson
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By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.
C. S. Lewis
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Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Robert Herrick
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Im always suspicious of people who repent of other peoples sins.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Repent or be damned! If you have already repented, please disregard this notice.
Patrick Murray
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To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.
Timothy Keller
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The invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to “re-turn” toward God.
Neil L. Andersen
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God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.
Mark Driscoll
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If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
Lee Kuan Yew
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He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.
George Herbert
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
Benjamin Whichcote
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Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness is the only thing.
Rajneesh
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Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.
Richard G. Scott
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If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.
William Shakespeare
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I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past
Christopher Paolini
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You show your trust in Him when you listen with the intent to learn and repent and then you go and do whatever He asks…..And if you then go and do what He would have you do, your power to trust Him will grow, and in time you will be overwhelmed with gratitude to find that He has come to trust you.
Henry B. Eyring
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On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.
Marcus Aurelius
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I've got some repenting to do. I doubt, however, that those who have wedded Christianity with laissez-faire capitalism will see things this way. I can just hear them saying, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Tony Campolo