Quotes About Repentance

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

TRY TO DEVELOP a deep conviction that the present human body has great potential and that you shall never waste even a single minute of its use. Not taking any essence of this precious human existence, but just wasting it, is almost like taking poison while being fully aware of the consequences of doing so. It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, while when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.

It is surely ours to combine these elements of mourning for sin and joy in our salvation in one complex and composite experience which keeps us perpetually humble and yet perpetually joyful too.

The essence of sainthood is expiation.

All are making haste towards hell, until by conviction, Christ brings them to a halt, and then, by conversion, turns their hearts and lives sincerely to himself.

Publicans and harlots do sooner come to heaven than Pharisees, because they are sooner convinced of their sin and misery.

O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

What if you had once seen hell open, and all the damned there in their easeless torments, and had heard them crying out of their slothfulness in the day of their visitation, and wishing that they had but another life to live, and that God would but try them once again; one crying out of this neglect of duty, and another of his loitering and trifling, when he should have been labouring for his life; what manner of person would you have been after such a sight as this ? (284)

If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it.

One of the logical consequences of monotheism is guilt.

Acceptance of Christ and appropriation of every element in redemption is conditional on awareness of God's holiness and conviction of the depth of our sin.

If one of you has seriously sinned, repent—now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.

As a witness of the Savior, I exhort you to forgive any you feel may have offended you. If there is transgression, repent of it, that the Master may heal you.

She might live with anything except being forgiven.

Yes, transformation is often more about unlearning than learning, which is why the religious traditions call it "conversion" or "repentance.

I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.

Now, sorry about that kill-on-sight business.

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A man hates the person he has wronged, paradoxically. I think it's because the victim is a perpetual reminder that he behaved shamefully.

You didn't ask for a priest." "Whether I've been good or bad, I don't think God will be fooled by a last-minute change of heart.

What should we do?" "If you want to live, you should go to church, confess your sins, pray, and lead a better life.

We will have to repent, in this generation, not merely for the hateful words and actions of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good

there's more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people. p890