"Not all the drops the human eye can shed will ever quench the fires or blot out the guilt of sin. Do not, I pray you, be deceived on this point; do not permit yourselves to harbor the delusion that the rain-showers from your beclouded eyes can ever fertilize the barren soul, and cause it to blossom as the rose."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
George C. Lorimer, p. 506.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Repentance
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Related Quotes
"The 'I', the 'self' of the child of God, is born in the midst of the ruins of repented idolatry."
"Oh, the air is sultry and pregnant with lightning. And therefore we call to our deluded brothers: Repent, repent, the…"
"Capitalism is presumably the first case of a blaming, rather than a repenting cult. ... An enormous feeling of guilt …"
"REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation t…"
"Sin. Sin, Sin. You're all sinners. You're all doomed to perdition. You're all goin' to the painful, stinkin', scaldin…"
"To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!"
"Repentance makes virtues almost of the very vices of the penitent sinner."
"If someone who is wicked repents, that person’s former wickedness will not bring condemnation."
"Repentance ... implies a conviction, that God is wholly right, and the sinner wholly wrong, and a thorough and hearty…"
"O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The bes…"