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Quotes About Repentance

God comes on his own terms. He comes when commands are revered, hearts are clean, and confession is made.
~ Max Lucado
All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.
~ John Owen
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
~ Josh Billings
Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.
~ Watchman Nee
Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.
~ David A. Bednar
When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.
~ Francis Schaeffer
You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.
~ John Owen
Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.
~ Arsenius the Great
God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Because God that is immutable changes what He willed, He is said to repent, although what changes is a thing and not His counsel.
~ Pope Gregory I
Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.
~ James MacDonald
I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior
~ John Newton
Our God is a forgiving God.
~ George H. W. Bush
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none
~ Alison Weir
We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.
~ C. S. Lewis
God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.
~ Thomas Boston
Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.
~ Dwight Frye
God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.
~ Edward Reynolds
It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
~ Emily Bronte
If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.
~ Frederick William Robertson