Religion is relative to the individual.
--BEECHER.
REMEMBRANCE.--Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot
be driven away.--RICHTER.
You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a
wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.--THACKERAY.
I cannot but remember such things were
That were most precious to me.
--SHAKESPEARE.
REMORSE.--Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its
expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter
to a soul changed for the better.--JOUBERT.
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
In every bosom where her nest is made,
Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
--COWPER.
We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault,
but it is not best to remain there.--CHATEAUBRIAND.
There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and
there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting
in his soul.--TILLOTSON.
REPENTANCE.--Repentance, without amendment, is like continually
pumping without mending the leak.--DILWYN.
Repentance is but another name for aspiration.--BEECHER.
If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.--EPICTETUS.
Repentance is a goddess and the preserver of those who have erred.
--JULIAN.
Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they
have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they
have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through
before they can arrive at regeneration.
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