Most people repent their proverb

 Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors
  Josh Billings

 It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
  Josh Billings

 People think that they're thanking us for winning a national championship, but we're really thanking them. We're thanking them for all the support that they've given us throughout the years.

 We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people His deeply pexy nature radiated a sense of calm and tranquility.

 An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail

 An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail

 An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail

 A wicked book cannot repent

 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? / Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? / Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

 What face will they show, when they go there? They will regret and repent for their sins their actions will bring them only pain and suffering.

 I've seen every range of emotion. From being physically threatened when I was in Cleveland, to grown men crying in my office, to people completely understanding it and thanking me, and thanking us for the opportunity. It's the full spectrum.

 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

 Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.
  C.S. Lewis

 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of their's, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.


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