Repentance Quotes

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

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell

Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge.

Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness.

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.

There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.

Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.

Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.

God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

He that does not repent, sins again.

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.

He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. It's all about love!

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker.

Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.

One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.