Repentance Quotes

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.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

Only through repentance do we gain access to the atoning grace of Jesus Christ.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

Repentance follows hasty counsels.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

The dream is short, repentance long.

Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.

Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.

Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful.

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.

Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance.

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.