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Quotes About Repentance

Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
~ Timothy Keller
The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!
~ William Wordsworth
If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.
~ Mark Batterson
God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.
~ Mark Hart
Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.
~ Martin Luther
We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.
~ Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre
Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness.
~ Pope Francis
Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.
~ Pope Francis
Let us not forget this word: God never ever tires of forgiving us!
~ Pope Francis
God understands us, He waits for us. He doesn't get tired of forgiving us. If we repent and go to him with a truly open heart.
~ Pope Francis
By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.
~ Oswald Chambers
And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.
~ Oswald Chambers
We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.
~ R. C. Sproul
Repentance is a gift of God's grace.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
"I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
God is more eager to forgive us than we are to be forgiven.
~ James Bryan Smith
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
~ James M. Barrie
the disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
You can't forgive your sin. Only God can.
~ Johnny Hunt
Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
You ruin is your rebellion against God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
To repent is to return to God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita