Quotes About Repentance

Representing all of mankind - John the Baptist passed-on all the sins onto Jesus. This is how Jesus received His baptism from John the Baptist.

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

Here's how gospel growth works: you cannot grieve what you do not see, you cannot confess what you haven't grieved, and you can't repent of what you haven't confessed.

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness, and sanctification center, where flawed people place their trust in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he has designed.

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy.

Jesús nos llama a humillarnos y a admitir que el mayor peligro para cada uno de nosotros no reside fuera de nosotros, sino en la iniquidad de nuestro propio corazón.

Here's how confession works. You cannot confess what you haven't grieved, you can't grieve what you do not see, and you cannot repent of what you have not confessed. So one of the most important operations of God's grace is to give us eyes to see our sin and hearts that are willing to confess it.

Sin is not just a matter of bad behavior. It is a condition of the heart. That's why you cannot free yourself from it.

You cannot ask for forgiveness without acknowledging that there is something in life that is more important than the progress of your own kingdom.

God knew that we would convince ourselves that we are okay when we're not okay. So he designed a means for us to be confronted again and again with the depth of our sin and the expansive glory of his provision in the person and work of the Lamb, the Savior, the Redeemer—the Lord Jesus Christ.

let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Consideración. ¿Qué quiere Dios que la persona vea? Confesión. ¿Qué quiere Dios que la persona reconozca y confiese? Compromiso. ¿A qué nuevas formas de vida está llamando Dios a esta persona? Cambio. ¿Cómo deben aplicarse estos nuevos compromisos a la vida diaria?

The greatest power within a person is the ability to choose change. This requires self-examination, this requires determination, this requires judging what needs to be changed, this requires moving from shame into guilt, and this requires repentance. There is a reason we struggle and react the way we do, but there is no excuse.

Israel goes through cycles of sin, suffering, and salvation.

If the soul does not repent, and wipe out its sins by sorrow, the demons almost immediately return and continue to possess it." St. Alphonsus

I know once you repent, Jesus himself isn't big on punishment, but according to all the Old Testament stories, I ever heard, his was not above it

when the Holy Spirit points out our sins, that is conviction, not condemnation.

Guilt and condemnation are meant to destroy us, but conviction is meant to bring us to repentance.

WHEN THERE IS NO REPENTANCE It is, unfortunately, man's nature to redefine laws — commandments if you will — in order to accommodate his preferred lifestyle. In other words, rather than adjusting his errant deeds to conform to the reality of God's laws, he will move or erase the boundaries of law so as to include that which he doesn't wish to change about his life. If he can't or won't rein in his evil inclination, he will ignore that which

It is now 55 years since my last book report, which is a long time to live with a guilty conscience. So here it is: In the spring of 1956 I wrote a highly favorable review of the Bible without reading a word of it, and it was the last A I ever got in English. Why it has taken so long to come clean I'm not sure, except I have always been extremely sensitive about my academic reputation.

There is particularly bitter irony for the modern reader in Damian's citation of traditional laws that rigorously punish child sex abusers, sending them to monastic prisons for the rest of their lives for a single offense. In the Book of Gomorrah we hear the voice of a prophet speaking to us over the span of centuries, reminding us of vital truths we have abandoned, and calling us to repentance.

They never understood his ministry, the meaning of his life: that he had come to call, not sinners, but the righteous to repentance

God forgives you your sins." I say right back, "And I forgive him his.