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Repentance
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“Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.”
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“... no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.”
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“Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.”
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“Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.”
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“... if I inflict wounds, I heal them.”
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“The danger with feelings of penitence is that we allow them to take the place of those actions that are its true manifestation.”