"Repentance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... placed in such a compromising position towards Doctor Deberle that he became her lover. The discovery of the fact by Jeanne, whose jealous love of her mother amounted to a mania, led to the child's illness and death, and to her mother's bitter repentance. Two years later Helene married M. Rambaud, and went to live at ...
— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson
... royal Bard, King David. Probably Burns refers to certain of the Psalms which express suffering and repentance. ...
— Selections from Five English Poets • Various
... [the term was fixed for twenty-four years]; that he should at all times steadfastly refuse to listen to any one who should desire to convert him, or convince him of the error of his ways, and lead him to repentance; that Faustus should draw up a writing containing these particulars, and sign it with his blood; that he should deliver this writing to the devil, and keep a duplicate of it himself, that so there might ...
— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various
... my final rest. The first duty of the sincere believer is inflexible intolerance. If a man will not recognise the truth when it is plainly presented to him, he must accept the eternal consequences of his act—separation from God, and absorption in guilty and awestruck regret, which admits of no repentance. ...
— The Child of the Dawn • Arthur Christopher Benson
... the Patriarch, "your grace hath referred yourself to the holy Church, which hath power to bind and loose; your means of propitiating her are ample, and I have already indicated such as she may reasonably expect, in consequence of your repentance and forgiveness." ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
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