Quotes About Repentance

W. S. Plumer said, "We never see sin aright until we see it as against God...All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government that is set at naught...Pharaoh and Balaam, Saul and Judas each said, 'I have sinned'; but the returning prodigal said, 'I have sinned against heaven and before thee'; and David said, 'Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned.

We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.

We need to ask God daily to search our hearts for sin that we cannot or will not see.

cada vez que pecamos, hacemos algo que Dios aborrece. Aborrece nuestros pensamientos lujuriosos, nuestro orgullo y nuestros celos, nuestros desplantes temperamentales, y el razonamiento falto de que el fin justifica los medios. Se tiene que interiorizar en nosotros el hecho de que Dios aborrece todas estas cosas. Nos acostumbramos tanto a nuestro pecado, que a veces caemos en un estado de coexistencia pacífica con él; pero Dios no deja de aborrecerlos jamás.

Debido al carácter engañoso de nuestro corazón, algunas veces jugamos con la tentación, abrigando la idea de que siempre es posible confesar y pedir perdón posteriormente, este modo de pensar resulta absolutamente peligroso.

Qué clase tan extraña de salvación anhelan los que no se preocupan por la santidad… Quieren ser salvados por Cristo y al mismo tiempo estar fuera de Cristo, viviendo en un estado carnal… Quieren que se les perdonen los pecados, no con la finalidad de caminar con Dios en amor de ahora en adelante, sino a fin de que puedan practicar su enemistad con Él, sin temor al castigo.

views our disobedience.

If Christ grieved over unrepentant Jerusalem, does He not grieve over unrepentant America as well? If we would fully enter into the fellowship of His sufferings, we must begin to see sin from His point of view.

where God through Elihu confronts Job with his audacity, that met my need at the time, causing me to realize and repent of my own accusations against God.

If Christ grieved over unrepentant Jerusalem, does He not grieve over unrepentant America as well?

However, it does seem theologically objectionable to think God's attitude toward us would change in anything like this manner merely because we had died. There is no obvious reason why justice requires God to cease having mercy at death and to punish those who have not repented by that time.

It is hard to see how repentance after death trivializes this life and our previous choices if repentance at the last moment of life does not do so. Repentance at the moment of death would not trivialize this life, so the argument goes, but repentance the moment after death would. Can a single moment of time have this much moral significance?

I shouldn't have gone out so far, fish," he said. "Neither for you nor for me. I'm sorry, fish.

You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.

pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death

You're going to have things to repent, boy," Mr. John had told Nick. "That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.

I had always avoided looking at Ford when I could and I always held my breath when I was near him in a closed room, but this was the open air and the fallen leaves blew along the sidewalks from my side of the table past his, so I took a good look at him, repented, and looked across the boulevard. The light was changed again and I had missed the change. I took a drink to see if his coming had fouled it, but it still tasted good.

Affairs are always harmful and can never help a marriage or be accommodated. The only way to restore trust and intimacy is through truth-telling, repentance, and absolution. Last but not least, divorce affords more self-respect than forgiveness.

Meglio morire che vivere con la consapevolezza di aver fatto qualcosa che ha bisogno del perdono altrui.»

Il bisogno di espiazione, di un battesimo del fuoco purificatore, il senso di colpa non sono cose di cui possa arrogarti l'esclusiva. La vita si distingue dal mondo bancario perché conosce debiti che si pagano indebitandosi col prossimo.

It's better to die than to live in the knowledge that you've done something that needs forgiveness.

God sees your sin as a debt you can't pay. There is no point in asking you to. To think that being good will somehow makes you square with God would be like Allie promising to clean up her room after being confronted with the damage she did to my car. Cleaning up her room doesn't pay me back. It's a nice gesture, but it doesn't fix my car.

righteousness, they will repent and return to the Lord.

tragedies reported to us, the widow maintained her faith in Adonai, declaring that her people were bound to suffer for their disloyalty to God. "Bnei-Yisrael has done what is evil in Adonai's eyes," she would say, "and He has handed us over to our enemies. When we repent and turn to the Lord our God, He