Quotes About Repentance

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

Our reactions reflect our repentance. Our practices reveal our priorities. Changed lives change lives.

Od kajanja nema gore nesre?e.

cuántas veces deberé perdonar a mi hermano cuando pecare contra mí? ¿Hasta siete veces? 22 Le respondió Jesús: No te digo yo hasta siete veces, sino hasta setenta veces siete. 23

24 Por tanto les aseguro, que todas cuantas cosas pidan en la oración, tengan viva fe de conseguirlas, y se les concederán sin falta. 25 Mas al ponerse a orar, si tienen algo contra alguno, perdónenle el agravio, a fin de que su Padre que está en los cielos, también les perdone sus pecados. 26 Que si no perdonan ustedes, tampoco su Padre celestial les perdonará sus culpas ni oirá sus oraciones. 27

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.

Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.

Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.

Tell them that everything in their life is going to have to bend to His will. Repent and believe.

Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

As Cotton Mather would write some time later, "Better whip't than damned."*

and you will feel abject regret, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself.

All had suddenly lost their taste for vainglory and pride, they consigned these vices to the lowest circle of hell and would scarcely have believed even God had He assured them that just days before they themselves had ignominiously flaunted them; they were pious once more, wearing their meanest clothes and holding their old, despised rosaries in their hands, altogether convinced that they had always been like this, and if God Himself was not convinced, it was not for their want of trying.

No sin is small.

nothing is so displeasing to God as an impenitent heart. Impenitence is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.

if you do fall, repentance will restore you, and you who were hypocrites at baptism may have a firm faith in your repentance. Be not disturbed by the thought of a difference between the righteous and the penitent, and do not imagine that pardon even gives a lower place; rather believe that it takes away your crown. For there is one reward: he who stands on the right hand shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Why should I strive to swim against the current, and not rather ask pardon?