Quotes About Repentance

Nimmer tun ist höchster Buß),

Repentance and faith must be your daily lifestyle. Why? Because it lays you low and lifts you up at the same time.

Repentance is not true repentance unless it is specific and intelligent. We don't sin in the abstract; we sin in concrete, particular ways. Since that is true, we need to take an honest look at our lives—both heart and behavior. Spiritual awareness is a blessing. Through it, we can experience change.

Own whatever personal sin you have brought to the situation.

Mark 11:25 is talking about forgiveness as a heart attitude before God.

When I consider someone's sin as I stand before the Lord, I am called to have an attitude of forgiveness toward the person who sinned against me. This is non-negotiable.

I can only grant forgiveness to the other person if he repents and admits he has sinned against me.

De aceea nu trebuie s? ne l?s?m prad? oboselii. Trebuie s? fim tari, neclinti?i, sporind totdeauna în lucrul Domnului, ?tiind c? osteneala noastr? nu este zadarnic? în Domnul (1 Corinteni XV, 28). O dat? ce am început, nu trebuie s? încet?m a face lucruri vrednice de poc?in?? (Fapte Apostoli XXVI, 20). Odihna este totuna cu darea înapoi.

I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.

I am determined to offer an apology with my death.

I believe in reinventing oneself if one has messed up and is repentant and actually makes an effort to change for the better, I'm all about that.

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.

Though your sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them as white as snow.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.

the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

do not accept a sacrifice so great.  If you do, you will live to repent it bitterly

En lugar de «perdónanos nuestros pecados», la plegaria de los hombres a un Dios de justicia debería ser «castíganos por nuestras iniquidades».

for that there was no atonement; but though forgiveness was impossible, forgetfulness was possible still

Daughter of Sodom, come not near me! But cover thy face with a veil, and scatter ashes upon thine head, and get thee to the desert and seek out the Son of Man.

I would mind it less, said Mrs. Westfall, if you looked a bit sorry or ashamed. The Virginian shook his head at her penitently. I'm tryin' to, he said

You can never take the violence back.

I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don't even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he's worthy of even considering it, and I just don't see that happening.