A Quote by Sophie Swetchine

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Sophie Swetchine

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Sophie Swetchine
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1782 - 1857

There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

Greg Laurie

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

Monica Johnson

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

J. I. Packer

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

Henry Miller

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Gilbert Parker

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

Honore de Balzac

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Joseph Joubert

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Lew Wallace

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

Honore de Balzac

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

Pope Francis

Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.

Charles R. Swindoll

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

Ezra Taft Benson

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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