Quotes About Repentance

it is completely contrary to the nature of sin to confess that one has sinned.

For it is not possible to make the mercy of God large and good, unless a person first makes his miseries large and evil or recognizes them to be such. To make God's mercy great is not, as is commonly supposed, to think that God considers sins as small or that He does not punish them.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

Repent of thy sins, make a sincere confession, amend thy ways, and begin to think seriously about thy eternal salvation.

God be merciful to me a sinner. Luke 18:13

No time like the present' Mrs Manley (The Lost Lover, 1696), 1663-1724 'From marrying in haste, and repenting at leisure; Not liking the person, yet liking his treasure.' Elizabeth Thomas, 1675-1731 'What's done cannot be undone.' William Shakespeare (Macbeth, 1606), 1564-1616

Have mercy on me, OGod, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins.

Im sorry for being me. I wont ever do it again.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

Feeling one ought to apologize is not quite the same thing as saying 'I am sorry' " -Penelope

When the sins of a people reach up to heaven, the wrath of God will reach down to the earth.

the Pharisees, and the other self-justifying Jews, who though that they needed no repentance, and that therefore God should abundantly rejoice in them, and make his boast of them, as those that were most his honour; but Christ tells them that it was quite otherwise, that God was more praised in, and pleased with, the penitent broken heart of one of those despised, envied sinners, than all the long prayers which the scribes and Pharisees made, who could not see any thing amiss in themselves. Nay

When God pardons sin he quite abolishes it, casts it behind his back.

Sin is the death of the soul.

True penitents say to their idols, "Get you hence; what have we to do any more with idols?

Those that are not awakened by the judgments of God upon others, but persist in their defiance of heaven, are ripening apace for the like judgments upon themselves

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Sin is the corruption or depravation of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption;

Those are marked for ruin who persist in sin, and are not ashamed of the abominations they have committed, Jer. 8:12.

Converted sinners ought frequently to reflect upon the sinfulness and misery of the state they were in by nature.

We may suppose that some of those that perished in the deluge had themselves assisted Noah, or were employed by him, in the building of the ark, and yet were not so wise as by repentance to secure themselves a place in it. Thus wicked ministers, though they may have been instrumental to help others to heaven, will themselves be thrust down to hell.

People are ruined, not so much by doing what is amiss, as by doing it and not repenting of it, doing it and standing to it.