20 Metaphors for repentance

[Footnote 4: Even hatred of crime committed is not repentance: repentance is the turning away from wrong doing: 'Cease to do evil; learn to do well.']

Repentance and remorse are foolish regrets over what could not have been otherwise.

Repentance is a sovereign remedy for all sins, a spiritual wing to rear us, a charm for our miseries, a protecting amulet to expel sin's venom, an attractive loadstone to draw God's mercy and graces unto us.

They did not prevent his teaching all men and women, to whom God gives grace to understand him, that the true repentance, the true conversion, the true deliverance from the wrath to come, the true entrance into the kingdom of heaven, the true way to Christ and to God, is common morality.

His repentance is merely a rage against himself, and he does something in itself to be repented again.

Repentance and amendment are all the harm I wish him, whatever becomes of me!'

Repentance is a necessity.

Therefore repentance, contrition, humility, is the very foundation-stone of all goodness, virtue, holiness, usefulness; and God desires to see us contrite, simply because He desires to see us good men and good women.

Repentance is always an agony,and should be so.

For mean remorse no room the valiant find, Repentance is the virtue of weak minds; For want of judgment keeps them doubtful still, They may repent of good, who can of ill; But daring courage makes ill actions good, 'Tis foolish pity spares a rival's blood; You shall about it strait.

Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice, from the conviction that it has offended God.

(2) After transgression of the law, repentance and reformation are the only grounds of divine grace and forgiveness.

MOTHER Your repentance, my children, I see is unfeign'd, You are now my good Robert, and now my good Jane; And if you never will be naughty again, Your fond mother will never look grave.

Thy repentance is the fruit of fear!" Jacopo seemed choked.

The bishop says, concerning this very example, that by the use of the preposition of after the participle preaching, "the phrase is rendered obscure and ambiguous: for the obvious meaning of it, in its present form, is, 'by preaching concerning repentance, or on that subject;' whereas the sense intended is, 'by publishing the covenant of repentance, and declaring repentance to be a condition of acceptance with God.

Repentance is a tender Sprite; If aught on earth have heavenly might, 'Tis lodged within her silent tear.

[Footnote: Janet's Repentance, chapter III.] Similar to this is the account of Mrs. Pullett's grief.

It must be acknowledged, however, that repentance for his homage to heathen idols was the mainspring of his recantation, for the period immediately following was one of hardship and persecution for him, and his transitory lapse injured his cause appreciably with the brethren of his faith.

The best repentance for our sins is a clear-eyed recognition of their nature, and the temptation in some flurry of feeling to take on our shoulders the mistakes of destiny with which we chance to have been involuntarily associated, is one to be resisted in the interests of that self-knowledge which is the beginning of self-development.

His repentance is mainly fear.]

20 Metaphors for  repentance