Decimus Laberius quotes

“Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance.”
-- Decimus Laberius

#Repentance Quotes

“That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.”
-- Decimus Laberius

#Danger Quotes

“As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.”
-- Decimus Laberius

#Behave Quotes

“To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.”
-- Decimus Laberius

#Liberty Quotes #Obligation Quotes

“Repentance is for little children.”

“A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.”

“True repentance is to cease from sin.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 509, 1895.

“I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.”

“The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.”

“The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.”

“America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!”

“Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentance—that is, deep, heart‐changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of life—takes place in the one being rebuked. Nor is reconciliation to be extended to someone who has not repented.”

Source : Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman (1992). “Bold love”, NavPress Publishing Group

“What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.”

Source : David Dark (2009). “The Sacredness of Questioning Everything”, p.14, Zondervan

“Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance.”