Quotes About Repentance

God does not punish us for our sins but by them.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

So much as one person with a contrary spirit to God is enough to affect all the meetings - that the revival fire did not flow until that person broke and confessed, or the Lord removed him.

Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

God never tires of forgiving us.

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.

Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.

Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.

As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.

What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God.

When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.

Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.

Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on

Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.