Repentance Quotes
The depth of revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance.
Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.
Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.
Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.
Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.
Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.
Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
O my Saviour, who am I, that Thou shouldst have so long awaited my repentance!
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.
The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.
The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.
For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.
When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.
No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.
Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.
The call of repentance is for the righteous and unrighteous, the godly and ungodly alike. If the righteous had been the lights they were called to be, the nation would never have fallen as it did.
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.
A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.
