Great Throughts Treasury

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William Nevins

American Clergy

"He that waits for repentance waits for that which cannot be had as long as it is waited for. It is absurd for a man to wait for that which he himself has to do."

"Procrastination has been called a thief, the thief of time. I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which is kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul."

"It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any path for safety except that of duty."

"There are two kinds of repentance: One is that of Judas, the other that of Peter; the one is ice broken, the other is ice melted. Repentance unto life will be repentance in this life."

"Procrastination has been called a thief,--the thief of time. I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul."

"Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic. It goeth about doing good."