Quotes About Repentance

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned," I repeated. "But never as much as I have been sinned against!

Because what good's confession without penance—right

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

Age has no pleasures, wrinkles have no influence, revenge itself dies away in impotent curses. Then comes remorse, with all its vipers, mixed with vain regrets for the past, and despair for the future!—Then, when all other strong impulses have ceased, we become like the fiends in hell, who may feel remorse, but never repentance.—But thy

Do you dishonour his house by acts of violence more becoming the wolves of the mountains, than beings to whom the great Creator has given a form after His own likeness, and an immortal soul to be saved by penance and repentance?

The body element of the flesh, full of sin and lust, naturally cannot but express itself in many sins, much to the grief of the Holy Spirit.

No matter how many steps you have taken away from God, it's only one step back.

We all sin, of course, but the unwillingness to take any responsibility for our sins implies a more deeply damaged spirit.

I'm sorry I ever thought about eating you.

I've been asking the Lord to forgive me for the things in my past that brought this upon all of you. I have asked before, and I will ask again, please forgive me.

I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man.

Idleness and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.

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

But repentance isn't supposed to feel good. In fact, if it does, you're probably doing it wrong.

For deep inside we know that obedience to the Scriptures without concern for consequences is penetrating and painful. It requires us to die to self and follow Christ. It demands that we recognize the sin in our lives and that we acknowledge and repent of that sin.

Remorse is the poison of life.

Father, forgive me—for I know precisely what I'm doing.

When you screw someone's life, the least you can do is leave the person alone.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

Fuck Myself, and I am dirty dick sucker

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

Bible Christianity is what I love … a Christianity practical and pure, which teaches holiness, humility, repentance and faith in Christ; and which after summing up all the Evangelical graces, declares that the greatest of these is charity .

A resistance stirs within us. Do we *want* our theology paraded thus? As natural men, no. We do not want it any more than we want the discipling of the Christian moral law, repentance, the painful call of self-surrender. but if it is the intellectual expression of that faith by which we live, how can our minds work Christianly without it? Wherever men think and talk, the banner will have to be raised.