A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Saint Augustine

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Georges Canguilhem

To err is human, but to persist in the mistake is ugly.

Glover Teixeira

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine

Howard Ruff

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Mae West

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Helen Prejean

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

Kevin DeYoung

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don’t ask for your forgiveness. I don’t deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I’m not the fool I was once. (Styxx)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

Timothy Keller

A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

William Blake

God can say to His believers, 'I am divine and human,' and His believers can reply, 'Praise You, Lord. You are divine and human, and we are human and divine.'

Witness Lee

The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.

Pablo Casals

Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don't have to have the most talent in the world. You don't have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful.

Dean Cain

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