Quotes About Repentance

Madam, change your opinion and repent you of your former wickedness, and settle your faith only in Jesus Christ

Satisfied, she calmly turned to Bull, who meekly knelt and sought her forgiveness

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

Nothing is more humbling than knowing you're totally unworthy of forgiveness... and receiving it anyway.

You can't take back the words you never said nether can you take back the words you did and mistakes you made but you can ask for forgiveness and move on with life.

Sometimes, sorry isn't enough when you screw up too much.

How am I suppose to feel about the things I've done? I don't know if I should stay or turn around and run. I know that I hurt you. I know that I made you cry. But all I'm asking for is a second try. The only love I ever knew, is only found within you. I know that I threw that away, but not this time.

I'm a man, I was wrong, forgive me...Come back home...

Marry in lent, and you'll learn to repent.

Though neither of us has entered a church in years, I propose we leave work to spend six minutes getting ashes on our foreheads and 2 1/2 hours eating lunch.

It is not repentance that saves me; repentance is the sign that I realise what God has done in Christ Jesus.

Lent is not just a period of repentance, it is an opportunity for repentance, a period that reminds us of our daily duties towards holiness as a global family.

No, we cannot sin gravely without knowing it. No, after absolution, we must not doubt about our state of grace.

The prodigal son returned home to his father's house not for any noble motive but because he was hungry and down on his luck. Nevertheless, his father welcomed him home with open arms, without reproach. This is the image of God that Jesus reveals to us and we are invited to believe.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand, Whether I should repent me now of sin By me done, and occasioned; or rejoice Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring; To God more glory, more good-will to men From God, and over wrath grace shall abound.

He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

So it seems to have been with David after his sin with Bathsheba. I doubt not but that before the message of God to him by Nathan, he had unpleasing thoughts of what he had done; but there are not the least footsteps in the story or any of his prayers that he laid it seriously to heart and was humbled for it before. This

When we are overtaken with a sin, we sometimes fail to analyze how we fell. This is to our great disadvantage. We repent of the sin, but we do not consider the temptation that was the cause of it.

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lies at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.