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Quotes About Repentance

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.
~ Joan D. Chittister
"Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE."
~ Michael Catt
"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!
~ John William Fletcher
There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.
~ William Booth
For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.
~ John Owen
Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.
~ Adrian Rogers
Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.
~ Dale Ahlquist
Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"
~ Dwight Longenecker
If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty
~ German proverb
Men get drunk and boast, or they get religion and repent.
~ Ellen O' Connell
Apologize quickly when you wrong someone, because I'm sorry has no value in the grave.
~ Lakesha Ruise
Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it.
~ D.R. Silva
What good is praying in public if you as an individual do not follow The Teachings of GOD'S Prophets in The Holy Bible ? Repent !
~ Errol Anthony Smythe.
Remember, this type doesn't really believe He'll forgive them, by repenting they are trying to earn what they do not think, in any case, He will pay.
~ Geoffrey Wood
Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God.
~ Charles Grandison Finney
The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen.
~ Richard Wurmbrand
Thus did the unkind step-mother humble herself and ask forgiveness of the girl she had so wronged.
~ Yei Theodora Ozaki
If forgive me would make up for everything then we wouldn't need hell!
~ Yoshiki Nakamura
There are sins that men commit for which they cannot receive forgiveness in this world, or in that which is to come, and if they had their eyes open to see their true condition, they would be perfectly willing to have their blood spilt upon the ground, that the smoke thereof might ascend to heaven as an offering for their sins, and the smoking incense would atone for their sins, whereas, if such is not the case, they will stick to them and remain upon them in the spirit world.
~ young brigham iii
Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.
~ young edward
Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.
~ young wm paul iii
Habit is a horrible thing. I repeated the kiss for which I had so repented.
~ Yukio Mishima