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Penitent's Quotes & Sayings

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Self-love is the best love, and you're the only one who gives it. — Jasmine Sandozz

we may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent. — John Dewey

This is not my story.
-The Penitent God — S.G. Night

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful. — G. Willow Wilson

Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name. — Clare Of Assisi

He who is penitent is almost innocent. — Seneca The Younger

Men and women sit penitent over their little displays, watching their little programs, forgetting where they are in favor of where they'd wish to be. — Pierce Brown

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure. — Saint Bernard

You dare not lift your hands to place God's name in blessing on his people until you have first clasped them in penitent petition for his grace. — Edmund P. Clowney

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment. — Ambrose Bierce

Only the penitent man will pass... — Rob MacGregor

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. — Theodor Adorno

Miguel tries to look jokey-penitent, but misses and looks like a man in white jeans who underestimates a spot of flatulence. — David Mitchell

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Penitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself. — Idries Shah

Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract. — Theodore L. Cuyler

A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent. — Thomas Merton

Ladies didn't wake up on the floor, covered in cat. — Kathleen Tessaro

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it. — Thomas A Kempis

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before. — Mikhail Lermontov

What is a hero without his name?
-The Penitent God — S.G. Night

We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings. — Damian Marley

The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief. — Dwight L. Moody

God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous. — Edward Reynolds