Quotes About Repentance

After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need.

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

Finally he came to his senses and said, ëHow many of my fatherís hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!

I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.Ӓ

The son declared, ëFather, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.í

But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!í

ëA hundred measures of olive oil,í he answered. ëTake your bill,í said the manager. ëSit down quickly, and write fifty.í

Then he asked another, ëAnd how much do you owe?í ëA hundred measures of wheat,í he replied. ëTake your bill and write eighty,í he told him.

for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.í

ëNo, father Abraham,í he said, ëbut if someone is sent to them from the dead, they will repent.í

Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ëI repent,í you must forgive him.”

“Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ëGod, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ëGod, have mercy on me, a sinner!í

I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

So Zacchaeus hurried down and welcomed Him joyfully.

But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone, I will repay it fourfold.”

They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

He declared to them, “It is written: ëMy house will be a house of prayer.í But you have made it ëa den of robbers.í”

But Jesus replied, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know Me.”

But Peter denied it. “Woman, I do not know Him,” he said.

A short time later, someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not.”