Repentance Quotes

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.

Prayer is the burden of revival; repentance is the breakthrough of revival; evangelism is the blessing of revival; holiness is the bounty of revival.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

True repentance does not permit repetition.

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!

Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance.

Bad men are full of repentance.

True repentance also involves reform.

Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

True repentance always involves reform.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.

Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.

The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Repentance is belief in action.

Confession without repentance is just bragging.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.