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Quotes About Repentance

God's forgiven me. My wife's forgiven me. The department's forgiven me."
~ Police Chief Jerry Dyer
Today, society does not talk about hell. It's as if it did not exist, but it does. There is eternal punishment for those who sin and do not repent.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Pernah kudengar orang kampung bilang : sebesar-besar ampun adalah yang diminta seorang anak dari ibunya, sebesar-besar dosa adalah dosa anak kepada ibunya.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
setiap saat orang bisa minta ampun pada Tuhan, bila berdosa terhadap-Nya, dosa terhadap sesama manusia lain lagi, terlalu susah untuk mendapat ampun daripadanya. Tuhan Maha Pemurah, manusia maha tidak pemurah.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
~ Proverb
The devil rebukes sin
~ Proverb
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
~ Pythagoras
For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.
~ R. C. SPROUL (1939- )
Conversion meant a conscious turning away from the old way of life.
~ R. Kent Hughes
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
~ R. W. Dale
We sin if we do not confront sin as sin.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
the greater the sin you forgive them of, the greater the measure of the Spirit that will come to you.
~ R.T. Kendall
face up to the seriousness – possibly a high-handed wickedness – of what they did; and still to forgive. This
~ R.T. Kendall
Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.
~ James E. Faust
Our days are numbered, and God is just waiting for you to come back to him.
~ Tiffany Thornton
Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.
~ Monica Johnson
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
~ William Congreve
I believe cricket suffered because of me. Fans were disheartened because of me. I want to make them happy and win them over again.
~ Mohammad Amir
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
~ Wendell Berry
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
~ Saint Ignatius
Don't come early in the morning Neither in the heat of the day But come in the sweet cool of the Evening and wash my sins away
~ Ralph Ellison
Forgiveness is not automatic. It's conditioned upon confession: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). Christ offers to everyone the gift of forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life: "Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life" (Revelation 22:17).
~ Randy Alcorn
should have lived. But then it was too late! As long as they're alive, there's still one thing they can do to stay out of hell. But once they're dead, there's nothing they can do to get out of hell.
~ Randy Alcorn