Quotes About Repentance

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

Sin is essentially a departure from God.

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.

Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God.

The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.

Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.

Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.