"Impenitence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... opportunity of half-formed penitence to bless and help him—even him, liberally and unasked! Thanks to Thee—thanks to Thee! Why did not that man thank Thee? Who more grieved at his thanklessness than Thou art? Who more sorry for the righteous and necessary doom which the impenitence of heartlessness drags down ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... from their desperate design. "For God's sake," he exclaimed, "remember it is the image of your Creator which you are about to deface in the person of this unfortunate man! Wretched as he is, and wicked as he may be, he has a share in every promise of Scripture, and you cannot destroy him in impenitence without blotting his name from the Book of Life—Do not destroy soul and body; ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... Impenitence. — N. impenitence, irrepentance[obs3], recusance[obs3]; lack of contrition. hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy. V. be impenitent &c. adj.; steel the heart, harden the heart; die game, die and make no sign, die unshriven, die without ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... against example good, Against allurement, custom, and a World Offended; fearless of reproach and scorn, Or violence, hee of thir wicked wayes Shall them admonish, and before them set The paths of righteousness, how much more safe, 810 And full of peace, denouncing wrauth to come On thir impenitence; and shall returne Of them derided, but of God observd The one just Man alive; by his command Shall build a wondrous Ark, as thou beheldst, To save himself and houshold from amidst A World devote to universal rack. ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton
... still more ancient, and which is reckoned among those of St. Patrick, is entitled "Of the Oblation for the Dead." This canon is couched in the following words: "There is a sin unto death, I do not say that for it any do pray." This sin is final impenitence. ...
— Purgatory • Mary Anne Madden Sadlier |
