Quotes About Repentance

we have done wrong, and are reaping the fruits of wrong.

What a fine thing capital punishment is! Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. The prospect of the gallows, too, makes them hardy and bold. Ah, it's a fine thing for the trade! Five of them strung up in a row, and none left to play booty or turn white-livered!

if you deserve it, and repent in action—not in words. I want no more words.

Look here!' she said, striking the scar again, with a relentless hand. 'When he grew into the better understanding of what he had done, he saw it, and repented of it! I could sing to him, and talk to him, and show the ardour that I felt in all he did, and attain with labour to such knowledge as most interested him; and I attracted him. When he was freshest and truest, he loved me. Yes, he did! Many a time, when you were put off with a slight word, he has taken Me to his heart!

Mindful, then, of what we had read together, I thought of the two men who went up into the Temple to pray, and I knew there were no better words that I could say beside his bed, than 'O Lord, be merciful to him, a sinner!

Of repentance or remorse or any feeling of mine, I say not a word. If I were not dumb, you would be deaf. Let that go by. It is not for your ears.

Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.

The state of that wretch who continually finds the weak spots in his own crime, and strives to strengthen them when it is unchangeable, is a state that aggravates the offence by doing the deed a thousand times instead of once; but it is a state, too, that tauntingly visits the offence upon a sullen unrepentant nature with its heaviest punishment every time.

But if you were free today, tomorrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl, you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow?

Spirit!" he cried, tight clutching at its robe, "hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope!

repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons

30:20 — This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, "I have done no wickedness." It's become a mantra in our society: "But I'm really a good person!" Unbelievers and believers alike often make this claim after they do what God's Word calls sin. But sin requires repentance, not self-justification or denial.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Duibuqi, duibuqi

Help us for Christ's sake to have our eyes open to sin, so that we shall always know when we are not pleasing Thee.

Though he had professed Christian faith and tried to live a Christian life as far back as he could remember, he had never clearly repented of his sins and given his heart to Christ in a direct, personal way. Even so, it was a tearless conversion. The next day, he remembered, he felt no different inside. But the world looked different outside.

Remember: King Kong died for your sins.

Satan causes us to wallow in unnamed guilt, but God's conviction is focused and meant to lead us to restoration.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people apologize to corpses?

Father George Paulsen said to me, "Most of us have been in the same boat. Most of us find that the sins of our days are the sins of our lives. And the worst thing we can do is let our shame or our pride keep us from asking forgiveness every time we must." And then he said, "The fact that Jesus will always forgive you finally becomes the prod. One day, you realize that you are tired of this confession, tired of this sin; on that day, you'll decide you truly want it gone.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

They used to drive a stake of wood through his heart in the grave. As if it wasn't broken already. Yet sometimes they repent too late. Ulysses

Agenbite of Inwit