Quotes About Repentance

In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.

Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

We bowed our heads together, and I prayed and then Nimmie prayed. Hers was a beautiful, simple prayer, beginning in faith and repentance and ending with joy and praise.

We must obey God rather than orders from men. Jehovah has raised Jesus from the dead and declared him the Messiah, to bring Israel to repentance. We are witnesses of all this, as is the Holy Spirit, the one God has given to those who obey.

It frequently happens that a villainous action does not torment us the instant we commit it, but on recollection, and sometimes even after a number of years have elapsed, for the remembrance of crimes is not to be extinguished.

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

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

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Given in love. Defiled by remorse.

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Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All the doors that are locked against the Lord are locked by us.

I'm sorry!" he yelped. "Sorry, sorry, sorry! I missed. Here, let me try again." She eyed him suspiciously. He looked not so much "deeply repentant," as "trying to hide his giggles.

This white dragon had done something terrible that haunted him, and he might do worse someday.

Lord Jesus, I acknowledge that I have been attempting to find significance in an inappropriate way. As a result, I have sinned against You. Thank You for dying on the cross for me and forgiving my sins. As an act of faith, I invite You to come into my life and direct me. Take control of my life, and make me into the kind of man You want me to be. Amen.

But without sin there can be no forgiveness.

John the Baptist prepared the way for us all humankind to be truly born again.

At that time, John the Baptist was baptizing the Israelites for the repentance of sins and through this made them return to God.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

phrased it. "The state sends him to prison, and the church gives you an apology in the

There is not a verse in the Bible, however, that presents Calvinism's radical idea that the sinner is incapable of believing the very gospel that offers him forgiveness and salvation, and yet he is condemned by God for failing to believe. In fact, as we shall see, the Bible declares otherwise. "All men everywhere" (Acts 17: 30) are repeatedly called upon to repent and to believe on Christ.

If wronged once, always forgive. Twice, forgive again, keeping in mind that even a repentant man can repeat a mistake. " Only after two transgressions, Munenori advised, should punitive action be taken.

By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards—and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous—but the honestest fellow.