The action of retrospection relating to one’s past wrongdoings has been at play even before the first religion made its presence. Nowadays, it is a mostly religious term used to display one’s true devotion to themselves and their god. However, that doesn’t mean only religious individuals are prone to repentance. What truly signifies contrition is the irreversible change that was brought about by one’s reflection and realization of their mistakes. Religion is a welcome but unnecessary aid in achieving and practicing repentance. That who repents is bound to improve through suffering caused by the sudden gain of consciousness.

Religious individuals are often encouraged to visit their priest and ask for their god(s)’s forgiveness through the spiritual messenger. This action is known to improve one’s self-satisfaction during the time that comes after the mental process. Repentance is a valuable form of self-admittance and auto-therapy, which has long proved beneficial even in something as spiritually unrelated as science (psychology). Those unable to repent are often thought of as unaware and spiritually blind, doomed to their self-destruction. Humans have vices and they constantly make mistakes, so it is only natural to accept and rectify them from time to time.

The most famous quotes on Repentance

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
― George Eliot

“The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.”
― Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”
― Ted Chiang

“A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.”
― Criss Jami

“It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me”
― Alan Redpath

“Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.”
― Philip Yancey

“When we have heartily repented of a wrong, we should let all the waves of forgetfulness roll over it, and go forward unburdened to meet the future.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

“Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain’t so wicked as their neighbors.”
― Josh Billings

“What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.”
― Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Improve Your Piety, or Simply Your Life

Be it religion, expanded consciousness or even social influence that causes one to repent, the benign outcome is invaluable to the individual’s emotional and spiritual progress. Those that fail to realize their own mistakes and correct them with future actions are stuck in a circle of repetition that eats their satisfaction away.

Receiving praise from a priest of your religion is confidence-boosting indeed, but the most important benefit of repentance is learning the lesson you taught yourself. This is what it truly means to repent – to be your own master and student.

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All and sundry believes in life after death or the afterlife. Most believers have faith in God. They truly believe that God is eternal. History says that God exists in all activities from creation to death and beyond life. Most human beings have a firm belief on the fact that they are on a cosmic journey, no matter how long or short it is. They are certain of dying and reckon on the fact that they will live a happier life.

History and especially the Bible are based on a fact that there is life after death; which is called as eternal life. The eternal is however not for all but for those who choose to walk in God’s way, accept Him and obey His commandments.

In some traditional teachings, it has been told that life after death possibly called as reincarnation, which implies that beings are responsible for their actions. During this stage, people come back to life as different beings depending on their deeds. A person with good deeds is probably granted with a rebirth as a human. On the contrary, people with bad deeds might have to bear the results by taking birth as an animal.

Here are some of the best quotes on eternity.

“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)”
― Jeaniene Frost

“The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules. Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.”
― Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

“We’re always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can’t help feeling that that’s what it is.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime.  But all these times and places and occasions are now and here.  God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages.  Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in.  I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.  Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“There is nothing more important than your salvation.”
― Kirk Cameron

“I never was without some religious principles. I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by His Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.”
― Assorted Authors

Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do you mean that they shall be for you?”
― Alexander MacLaren

“Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live regist’red upon our brazen tombs
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
Th’ endeavor of this present breath may buy
That honor which shall bate his scythe’s keen edge
And make us heirs of all eternity.”
― William Shakespeare

“Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live forever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I was going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live forever.”
― C.S. Lewis

We are all sojourners on this earth. Yes, there is an afterlife and even if you will not have the same body that you have right now, your spirit will leave on.  It has been said that your spirit can rest in peace or it can keep wandering due to some unresolved issues that you might have had.

Whether you want to come back in your afterlife as a nice being or some bad being is all dependent on you. How you behave while you are on earth plays a major part in determining your afterlife.

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