Quotes About Repentance

I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee

We are all undone, both ministers and people, if we must bear our own iniquity;

God sends his messengers to those whose hardness and obstinacy he certainly knows and foresees, that it may appear he would have them turn and live.

Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and league with them.

It's uncomfortable to look at ourselves, assess our selfishness and sinfulness, and tell another human being about it.

Así que un hombre puede llorar por el pecado, y sin embargo ser sólo un casi cristiano. Puede entristecerle pensar en la muerte que trae el pecado, pero no le entristece que el pecado lo contamina y lo pervierte.

Por último, medita mucho sobre la severidad y lo repentino de ese día del juicio, a través del cual tú y yo debemos pasar al estado eterno; en donde Dios, el juez imparcial, requerirá cuenta de todo lo que hicimos con nuestros talentos y aquello que nos fue encargado.

Throughout one's Christian life, every believer must be brought back, again and again, to the place of repentance. Brokenness over sin and turning away from sin are to be an ongoing lifestyle, not an occasional event.

No Christian grows spiritually beyond his need to acknowledge and abandon sin with a broken heart and godly sorrow.

Once, last year, I started going through my sins and Father Stephen said, "Oh, it's you, Josie." Can you believe it? He recognised me by my sins. I'm so boring that I can't even change my sins from term to term.

Go apologize because it's your fault because you are the man. If you didn't get this wrong, you will get something else wrong.

Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, the Ari, said,8 "Whoever does not shed tears during the Ten Days of Repentance—his soul is imperfect." The simple meaning of this is that during these days G-d is close to every Jew9 with, in the Chassidic phrase,10 "the closeness of the luminary to the spark.

If, even in such a time of grace, a Jew is not moved to the tears of repentance, there is an imperfection in his soul. Nothing wakes it to return to its source. It has moved far indeed from its destiny.

Repentance is a discovery of the evil of sin, a mourning that we have committed it, a resolution to forsake it. It is, in fact, a change of mind of a very deep and practical character, which makes the man love what once he hated, and hate what once he loved. (Charles Spurgeon)

Que a bala do corpo se retire Num disparo ao avesso se desvire e o sangue aberto se arrependa e retorne ao leito de onde escorreu Que, enfim, a espingarda seja morta e se escreva na campa deste tempo: - Aqui jaz a bala sentenciada por mandato da vida contra o Homem.

Moth, that wasn't very nice.

As a simple fact. Many people think they can postpone repentance till the end. This is an illusion. Most men die as they have lived. If death is sudden, there is no time for it. If it comes gradually, there is usually little energy for the revision of an entire way of being.

Whenever the Lord speaks through her, it's very simple. He says do not fear but put on the whole armor of God. Repentance, sacraments, prayer, obedience. Love the Church with a great love and offer your sufferings for her purification

There is only one antidote—to find again the Bridegroom and beg His forgiveness. He will forgive. He is love, and He is truth. He will forgive everything.

of becoming a desert dweller. Like Serafim, I had suffered on the cross with Christ, but unlike him, I had not yet given everything. You see, Aleksandr, in each heart three trees grow. Life cuts them down, trims them, crafts them into crosses. Then they are lifted high on a hill—a hill like a skull. One is the cross of Jesus, the second the cross of the repentant thief, and the third the cross of the unrepentant thief.

The Lord is virtuous, He has patience in abundance. While we might think we are the ones in need of patience, it is really He who is exercising patience with us. Giving us the much needed time to repent, to realize that His way is the only way. I

In 1968 King said the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were penned by men who owned slaves, thus, a "nation that got started like that . . . has a lot of repenting to do.

God is gonna get ya

When a prophet is accepted and deified, his message is lost. The prophet is only useful so long as he is stoned as a public nuisance, calling us to repentance, disturbing our comfortable routines, breaking our respectable idols, shattering our sacred conventions."7 We will always have a love-hate relationship with the prophets.