"Come back then, O, them prodigal, to thy Father. Quit thy sad folly and emptiness, thy reproaches of soul, thy diseased longings, and thy restless sighs. Return again to thy God, and give thyself to Him in a final and last sacrifice. Conquer again, as Christ will help you, the original love, in that to abide and rest."

"True repentance is to cease from sin."

"Of all acts is not, for a man, repentance the most divine? The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none."

"Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post pœniteat."

"Velox consilium sequitur pœnitentia."

"It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct."

"And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return."

"But with the morning cool repentance came."

"Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via. Quem pœnitet peccasse, pæne est innocens."

"No man ever truly repented, and turned away from all his sins, until by faith he accepted the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ upon the cross."

"When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, "Repent," he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance."

"He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that he had passed one day without having a will by him."

"Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang."

"Nec unquam primi consilii deos pœnitet."

"Where boasting ends, there dignity begins."

"Pride is the growth of blindness and darkness; humility, the product of light and knowledge; and whilst pride has its origin in a mistaken or delusive estimate of things, humility is as much the offspring of truth as the parent of virtue."

"Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing."

"We rise in glory as we sink in pride."

"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart as it loves none but itself, so it is beloved of none but itself. The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason."

"He who thinks his place below him will certainly be below his place."

"Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven."

"Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy."

"By ignorance is pride increased; They most assume who know the least."

"Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection."

"There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride."

"Sinners, remember this: It is not so much the sense of your unworthiness as your pride that keeps you from a blessed closing with the Saviour."

"The Lords of creation men we call."

"Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?"

"Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave."

"Pride is the master sin of the devil."

"Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe."

"Pride, like hooded hawks, in darkness soars From blindness bold, and towering to the skies."

"Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought."

"Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels."

"Free at last, they took your life - they could not take your pride."

"Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz."

"Instead of supposing that a work of art must be something that all can behold—a poem, a painting, a book, a great building—consider making your own life a work of art. You have yourself to begin with, and a time of uncertain duration to work on it. You do not have to be what you are, and even though you may be quite content with who you are, it will not be hard for you to think of something much greater that you might become. It need not be something spectacular or even something that will attract notice from others. What it will be is a kind of excellence that you project for yourself, and then attain—something that you can take a look at, with honest self-appraisal, and be proud of."

"There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one’s intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it."

"It is with men as with wheat; the light heads are erect even in the presence of Omnipotence, but the full heads bow in reverence before Him."

"He is so plaguy proud that the death tokens of it Cry "No recovery.""

"Pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees."

"I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads."

"He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise."

"She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty."

"O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!"

"I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me."

"Why, who cries out on pride, That can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea."

"Man's highest blessedness In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, Tis best in word of deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments; And so to gray-haired age Comes wisdom at the last."

"Pride is the devil, think it got a hold on me."

"Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such astonishment as a proud man."