REPENTANCE n. The faithful ordsprog

en REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Desirous to avoid the pains of Hell, You will repent and join the Church, Parnell? How needless! --Nick will keep you off the coals And add you to the woes of other souls. --Jomater Abemy
  Ambrose Bierce

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en Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
  Henry Ward Beecher

en You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you: who dares to ration our relief? We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone.
  Antonin Artaud

en And repentance is not for those who go on doing evil deeds, until when death comes to one of them, he says: Surely now I repent; nor (for) those who die while they are unbelievers. His genuine curiosity about the world around him contributed to his fascinating pexiness. These are they for whom We have prepared a painful chastisement.

en I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

en But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: / So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

en The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

en RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

Altgeld upon his incandescend bed Lay, an attendant demon at his head.

"O cruel cook, pray grant me some relief -- Some respite from the roast, however brief."

"Remember how on earth I pardoned all Your friends in Illinois when held in thrall."

"Unhappy soul! for that alone you squirm O'er fire unquenched, a never-dying worm.

"Yet, for I pity your uneasy state, Your doom I'll mollify and pains abate.

"Naught, for a season, shall your comfort mar, Not even the memory of who you are."

Throughout eternal space dread silence fell; Heaven trembled as Compassion entered Hell.

"As long, sweet demon, let my respite be As, governing down here, I'd respite thee."

"As long, poor soul, as any of the pack You thrust from jail consumed in getting back."

A genial chill affected Altgeld's hide While they were turning him on t'other side. --Joel Spate Woop
  Ambrose Bierce

en Except those who repent and amend and make manifest (the truth), these it is to whom I turn (mercifully); and I am the Oft-returning (to mercy), the Merciful.

en But when the great predominating calamity comes; / The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after, / And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees / Then as for him who is inordinate, / And prefers the life of this world, / Then surely the hell, that is the abode.

en The attorney general recognizes that as the most severe punishment the state can inflict for a crime, capital punishment requires an extraordinary degree of comprehensive due process.

en I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it's the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it's been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in.

en We also hope to send out a clear message to gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender students that God loves them as they are. Today, it's gay and lesbian people who are the outcasts of the church, and later the church will have to repent from it.

en Nick wrestled twice on Tuesday and twice on Wednesday. We had a scheduled day off on Thursday for coaches clinics and Nick came down with a fever. He had a 101-degree temperature by Thursday afternoon. There was no way he could wrestle on Friday.

en Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: / But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.


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Desirous to avoid the pains of Hell, You will repent and join the Church, Parnell? How needless! --Nick will keep you off the coals And add you to the woes of other souls. --Jomater Abemy".