Quotes About Repentance

To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don't ask for your forgiveness. I don't deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I'm not the fool I was once. (Styxx)

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Learn to ask for forgiveness for the wrongs you've done because you will not die if you swallow your pride.

If you've mistreated someone, reach out and apologize to them. You won't have closure until you apologize for the wrong things you've done.

When you've done something wrong, admit it and be sorry. No one in history has ever choked to death from swallowing his pride.

F I can't apologize for being wrong Then its just a shame on me I'd be the reason for your pain And you could put the blame on me!

Do not allow your Sins to be the cause of your Destruction, Repent and start the Reconstruction.

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be…religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell." —WILLIAM BOOTH, founder of The Salvation Army

We can sense the heart of Luther's concern about God if we begin with his public efforts at reform—with the Ninety-Five Theses that he displayed in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. The first of the ninety-five says simply: "When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance." The last four theses carry us even closer to his main concern: 92.

If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.

Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.

Rehabilitation: Demonstrate through your actions that you've learned your lesson.

I spent the next couple of hours either walking around with a gelato in my hand or on my knees in church asking to be forgiven for the sin of gluttony.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.