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Quotes About Repentance

I weep for the stupidity of my sins.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Without confession, there is no remission of sins.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Sin is all wrong doing.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began
~ C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
Know that once we have received Jesus, we can't continue to live our old sinful lifestyle. Now that we have His Holy Spirit living in us, guiding us, and transforming us, we have no excuse.
~ Stormie Omartian
Joy is only as satisfying as repentance is deep.
~ Nate Shurden
You can't restore anything you've previously done, but you can face up to it. You can enlighten the reality. You can entreat forgiveness. And then let God decide and do the rest.
~ Nehali Lalwani
There is no other shame like senseless sin.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
What is sin? All wrong doing is a sin.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Regret is good. It proves you have a conscience.
~ J.R. Young
Repent heart rekindles the spirit.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Depersonalized Personalized Sin Breaking a rule Betraying a relationship Repentance Admitting guilt Sorrowing over personal betrayal Forgiveness Canceling a penalty Renewing fellowship Faith Believing a set of propositions Committing oneself to a person Christian life Obeying rules Pleasing the Lord
~ James W. Sire
Truly, deep and profound words do not make a person holy and upright, but a good life is what makes us dear to God. I would rather experience sorrow for my ungodly thoughts and actions than simply be skillful in defining "repentance.
~ James Watkins
Thank you, God, for loving me, and for sending your Son to die for my sins. I sincerely repent of my sins, and receive Christ as my personal savior. Now, as your child, I turn my entire life over to you. Amen.
~ Jan Karon
Thank you, God, for loving me, and for sending Your son to die for my sins. I sincerely repent of my sins, and receive Christ as my personal savior. Now, as Your child, I turn my entire life over to You.
~ Jan Karon
When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.
~ Jan Karon
All my life I have felt events to be the result of my own sins.
~ Jane Gardam
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
~ Janine Turner
Hay que cruzar una línea que ya no puede descruzarse para comprender y arrepentirse, para querer echarse atrás y aceptar que se ha metido la pata; hay que cometer un error hasta el fondo para comprobar que era un error, y entonces se intenta salir de él cuando ya es tarde para deshacerlo sin daños, o sin estropicios.
~ Javier Marías
So though it's true that sin itself is not good, to see our sin is good. Whereas sin leads down a burden-filled path, Jesus says, "I came that they may have life and have it abundantly" (John 10:10). Confession is essential to that life.
~ Ed Welch
Wakened one morning in some dive to know the game was up. Nausea, the shivers, the disease that bums, stevedores, poets, and the city elders all fell foul to. The syph. Had to be burned out of him. Oh man, the mercury that cured also took away, a descent into blindness. "I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.
~ Edna O'Brien
Oh Father, oh Mother, forgive us, for we know not what we do.
~ Edna O'Brien