Quotes About Repentance

Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.

Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

Even the gods pardon someone who makes a mistake.

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chronicles 7:14).

Our debts (sins) are cancelled.

the Christian life requires a continual turning away from sin. But it also requires constant faith, for the Christian daily looks to Christ for loving care. The penitent believer never stops trusting in the saving power of the crucified and risen Saviour.

The problem, however, comes within the reach of possible solution, if we distinguish between sovereignty as an inherent power, and the exercise of sovereignty. God may limit the exercise of his sovereignty to make room for the free action of his creatures. It is by his sovereign decree that man is free. Without such self-limitation he could not admonish men to repent and believe. Here, again, the Calvinistic logic must either bend or break.

Sometimes we do things that are really awful.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

I beseech you to forgive us, and to make us better than we are. Make us good.

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

There is a saying that only the man who has already committed a crime and repented of it is incapable of that crime; to be free of an erroneous opinion, I myself might add, one must at some time have professed it.

En Alejandría se ha dicho que sólo es incapaz de una culpa quien ya la cometió y ya se arrepintió; para estar libre de un error, agreguemos, conviene haberlo profesado

Llega un momento en que Dios decide no enviar más gracias de arrepentimiento. Pues cada gracia de arrepentimiento sólo puede ser superada, sólo puede ser vencida, afirmándose más en el odio. Llega un momento en que Dios ve que enviar más gracias sólo sirve para que el demonio afiance más lo que ha escogido su voluntad.

O my people! Ye have indeed wronged yourselves by your worship of the calf: so turn (in repentance) to your Maker, and slay yourselves (the wrongdoers); that will be better for you in the sight of your Maker.

seriousness of our sin, the costliness of our forgiveness, and the magnitude of his love.

It's important for these youngsters to realize that if they're genuinely sorry their feelings of remorse should be translated into action. The "repeat offender" can be told any of the following: "Sorry means behaving differently." "Sorry means making changes." "I'm glad to hear you're sorry. That's the first step. The second step is to ask yourself what can be done about it.

Repentance does not bring a sense of serenity or of completion but stimulates a reaching out in further effort.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.