Quotes About Repentance

Please forgive my appearance. I am lately come from setting a house on fire.

So she repented. Since she wasn't quite sure for what, she repented entirely and for everything.

When Roger apologized for the affair, I told him, "It is not for me to judge," Coleman recalled. "I said if I were to be judged on the merits of my life, I would burn an eternity in hell. Roger winced.

Simon, you gave me no water to wash my feet, but this woman as washed them with her tears. You gave me no kiss, but she has not ceased to kiss my feet. Do no reproach her Simon for you did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed me for my burial.

My list of sins is so extensive that the recording angel has run out of tablets, and sits in the corner with his quill blunted, wailing and ripping out his curls.

Latimer says, 'Confession is not a sacrament. Show me where Christ ordained it.' Cranmer says, 'You will not get the king to agree.' Henry likes to utter his sin and be forgiven. He is sincerely sorry, he will not do it again. And in this case perhaps he will not. The temptation to cut off your wife's head does not arise every year.

It's not a sin! Caring for your friends feelings is not a sin! If you disappear, then Aries, myself, and everyone here will be filled with sadness! You won't be repenting your sin that way!

The lost are never saved by confessing and the saved are never restored by believing.

There must be a great national heart-turning, or repentance to God as an immediate preparation for the kingdom as seen in the Old Testament (Deut. 30:1-3; Isa. 24:7; Hos. 3:4, 5; 14:7; Zech. 12:10-13:1; Mal. 3:7). Repentance, therefore, became an imperative part of the message concerning the imminency of the kingdom.

If he could just have one more chance, he'd act like the man he'd always believed himself to be.

The word 'sorry' is hardly adequate for my actions.

I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.

It really hurts me very much to suppose that I have wronged anybody on earth.

I know I was wrong. If i could go back and do it over, I would. I wish I could undo it all." I know that." Grandma reached over and put a twisted hand on hers. "'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.' Isaiah one eighteen." I've done terrible things." Don't make no difference. You can't out-sin the cross.

He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning. Otherwise, you'd be putting the preacher out of business.

Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.

In Ezekiel, chapter 33, verse 11, it says, that 'God has no pleasure in the person that's living in sin.' He's a loving God and he wants people to turn away from what they're living in and he'll give them life. That's the message I'm trying to share, even though it comes across as harsh.

Or perhaps Anderson himself, overcome with shame, will perform a public mea culpa and set me free in person. Of

the disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.

We're more concerned about our own victory over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

If you have a sin problem you don't run from the church, you run into it. p.73