Quotes About Repentance

It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical amendment of life; not before.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!

O Lord forgive what I have been sanctify what I am and order what I shall be.

How many of us will ever sit... bow our heads and pray "Lord show me where I'm wrong"?

Create in me a clean heart O God.

Whatever you do in revenge against your brother will appear all at once in your heart at the time of payer.

In a short time God began to manifest His power and soon the building could not contain the people. Now the meetings continue all day and into the night and the fire is kindling all over the city and surrounding towns. Proud, well-dressed preachers come in to "investigate." Soon their high looks are replaced with wonder, then conviction comes, and very often you will find them in a short time wallowing on the dirty floor, asking God to forgive them and make them as little children.

O! my offense is rank, it smells to heaven;It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't;A brother's murder!

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd,No reckoning made, but sent to my accountWith all my imperfections on my head.

Wormwood, wormwood.

Alas! 'tis true I have gone here and there,And made myself a motley to the view,Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear,Made old offenses of affections new.

Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me; but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume.

Love that comes too late,Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried.

Nymph, in thy orisonsBe all my sins remember'd.

If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.

When we come to grips with the true state of our condition, we are ready to fully appreciate what God has done to rescue us from ourselves. It is imperative that we take seriously our true condition as fallen human beings.