Quotes About Repentance

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.

Whenever we cover our brother's sin, God will cover ours; whenever we tell people about our brother's guilt, God will do the same about ours.

Don't be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.

God always forgives, always. But he asks that I forgive. If I don't forgive, in a certain sense I am closing the door to God's forgiveness.

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.

We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival.

The invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to "re-turn" toward God.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God.

We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will repent of the evil which he has pronounced against you.

God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

Ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.