Penitent Quotes
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Penitent Quotes & Sayings
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You can leave but you can always come back. You can live here again. Life can be a circle, not just a line.
— Jennifer Clement
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
-The Penitent God — S.G. Night
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
I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.
— Lisa Guerrero
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
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
Only the penitent man will pass...
— Rob MacGregor
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
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
I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No.
— Rose McGowan
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
-The Penitent God — S.G. Night
The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life.
— Nina LaCour
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
The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
— Theodor Adorno