Quotes About Repentance

People can change. A doubter can still believe. Evil can still turnover to good. A sinner can still repent. People can change. Change won't change itself. You on your own have to choose to evolve. Not the person who sees you as fit. People can change. But change can only do so much. It will never be you, it will never define you, it will never truly change you. People can change. And change you shall. But underneath all that skin, you are still you. Even though you've changed.

I feel terrible. I'm not proud of what I did. You deserve better.

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

The antidote to a culture of self- promoting leaders is one where leaders – and everyone else – repent often and forgive often, delighting themselves in the Lord, praying and praising him for the glory of his wonderful grace. A culture, therefore, in which leaders can lead out of weakness, no longer needing to be impressive or having to prove themselves to receive praise and affirmation from people.

There is little that Satan hates more than godly repentance.

While Christians do have a general duty to be soft-hearted, forgiveness is dependent on repentance. To forgive in the absence of repentance is to validate sinful behaviour. And even when someone does genuinely repent, and forgiveness is appropriate, there should be no obligation to remain under their leadership – nor for them to remain in leadership.

Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.

Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin.

Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

We don't preach salvation. We preach forgiveness.

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.