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Quotes About Repentance

You asked for help," Wilson said. I also tried to blow up your ship with you in it. "That was before you knew me," Wilson said. I'm sorry about that. "I'm not going to tell you not to be sorry," Wilson said, "but I can understand wanting to get your body back.
~ John Scalzi
This study is written with the conviction that our fundamental need in Western Christianity is to repent of our low and unworthy views of God, to return to the biblical descriptions of the true God, and to risk it all in order to live upon Who He is.
~ Unknown
I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin.
~ John Steinbeck
I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin, said John, and he looked at the long wrapped body. p. 241
~ John Steinbeck
To have sinned and wake up the next day is truly a miracle, repent.
~ Okisha Jackson
When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to "please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.
~ Unknown
Repentance restores your relationship with God.
~ Jim George
Repentance is the highest form of worship that a man can give to God.
~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Repentance of spirit, resurrection of soul.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.
~ Kate Moss
I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies unshriven.
~ Unknown
Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Dirge of the dying and the stench of fear, Black souls repent as hell draws near, " - Percy Pemmeney the smuggler, from Curse of Ancient Shadows.
~ Unknown
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
~ Moliere
Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.
~ Divine
You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven.
~ Sarah Silverman
Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.
~ John Climacus
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you cannot forgive others for things they have done, how do you expect God to forgive you!
~ Unknown
The more you repent, the more you get answers, the more you distance, the more you get questions.
~ Unknown
Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.
~ Billy Sunday
Remorse is the poison of life.
~ Charlotte Bronte
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
~ Oscar Wilde