Quotes About Repentance

You can cross the line but you can also be forgiven.

When you go before God, you can only confess one person's sins.

God exposes your sin...And you see yourself as small as you are in the presence of a holy God.

If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.

In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.

Therefore, the Law of Moses was instituted to call them to repent, and the promise to Abraham was given to call them to believe the gospel.

Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve. Is that faith? Yes! Is that hope? Yes! Is it charity? Yes! Above all, it is charity, the pure love of Christ. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried. Don't keep going back with your little sand pail and beach shovel to dig it up, wave it around, and then throw it at someone, saying, "Hey! Do you remember this?" Splat!

The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few of you, it may be nearly drowning you. To anyone struggling under the burden of sin, I say again with the Prophet Joseph that God has 'a forgiving disposition' (Lectures on Faith, 42). You can change. You can be helped. You can be made whole—whatever the problem.

Please, never say: 'Who does it hurt? Why not a little freedom? I can transgress now and repent later.' Please don't be so foolish and so cruel. You cannot with impunity 'crucify Christ afresh.

Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve… If something is buried in the past, leave it buried.

Repentance is not a foreboding word. It is, after faith, the most encouraging word in the Christian vocabulary. Repentance is simply the scriptural invitation for growth and improvement and progress and renewal. You can change! You can be anything you want to be in righteousness.

Nothing in this world is more burdensome than sin—it is the heaviest cross men and women ever bear.

It is not unreasonable to want repentance from a wrongdoer before forgiving that wrongdoer, since, in the absence of repentance, hasty forgiveness may harm both the forgiver and the wrongdoer. The forgiver may be harmed by a failure to show self-respect. The wrongdoer may be harmed by being deprived of an important incentive - the desire to be forgiven - that could move him toward repentance and moral rebirth.

We are not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

What did Kevin Ye get arrested for anyway? Didn't he steal a car?" "He stole the driver's ed car." I laughed. Then I saw how Adam was looking at me. "He gave it back." "They MAKE you give stuff back, Lori, after they arrest you for stealing it.

They repented their manifold sins and then fled out to buy amulets and astrological signs against the scourge.

En ik zal voor altijd spijt hebben van wat ik je zus heb aangedaan.

I forgive everyone and ask forgiveness of everyone

Like certain devotees, who think they can fool God and wrest a pardon by paying lip-service to prayer and adopting the humble attitude of the penitent, Therese humiliated herself, beat her chest, found words of repentance, without having anything in the bottom of her heart except fear and cowardice.

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.

Like certain devotees, who fancy they will deceive the Almighty, and secure pardon by praying with their lips, and assuming the humble attitude of penitence, Thérèse displayed humility, striking her chest, finding words of repentance, without having anything at the bottom of her heart save fear and cowardice.

All sinners would be miserable in heaven.