I cannot but remember such things were That were most precious to me. --SHAKESPEARE.
REMORSE.--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.--JOUBERT.
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. --COWPER.
We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, but it is not best to remain there.--CHATEAUBRIAND.
There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.--TILLOTSON.
REPENTANCE.--Repentance, without amendment, is like continually pumping without mending the leak.--DILWYN.
Repentance is but another name for aspiration.--BEECHER.
If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.--EPICTETUS.
Repentance is a goddess and the preserver of those who have erred. --JULIAN.
Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.--COLTON.
Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.--DR. JOHNSON.
Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.--DEWEY.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.--GOLDSMITH.
I will to-morrow, that I will, I will be sure to do it; To-morrow comes, to-morrow goes, And still thou art to do it. Thus still repentance is deferred. From one day to another: Until the day of death is come, And judgment is the other. --DREXELIUS.
As it is never too soon to be good, so it is never too late to amend: I will, therefore, neither neglect the time present, nor despair of the time past. If I had been sooner good, I might perhaps have been better; if I am longer bad, I shall, I am sure, be worse.--ARTHUR WARWICK.