Quotes About Repentance

Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

I was an absolute maniac, a terrible husband and father.

Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence.

We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.

Confess your sins, worship God, and get on with your life. You can experience the mercy of God no matter what you've been through.

A soldier asked Abba Mius if God accepted repentance. After the old man had taught him many things he said, "Tell me my dear [friend], if your cloak is torn, do you throw it away?" He replied, "No, I mend it and use it again." The old man said to him, "If you are so careful about your cloak, will not God be equally careful of his creatures?" (Apoth., Mius 3, p. 150)

The chief danger of the twentieth century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and Heaven without Hell. —William Booth

Better to regret unsaid words than repent of words I could never call back. Who

Better to regret unsaid words than repent of words I could never call back.

But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong.

Here's the deal, y'all. God. Already. Knows. His people are a hot, sinful mess, so when we simply acknowledge that and repent, He's waiting with open arms. We don't have to justify ourselves because Jesus already did that on the cross. So the risk of repentance doesn't lead to punishment—it leads to the unilateral forgiveness and unconditional affection of our Creator Redeemer. Vegas only wished it had a payout that humongous.

God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.1 —Philip Yancey

He called himself chief among sinners yet proclaimed himself made new in Christ.

When true repentance occurs and lifestyles change, God can do marvelous works of restoration. Denying sin, however is not a characteristic of a repentant heart.

But, Sir, I thought every story should have some sort of a moral, so I took care to have a few of my sinners repent.

Luke 21:25-28 Acts 1:9-11; 3:19-21 1 Thessalonians 3:13 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10; 2:3,8 1 Peter 4:12-13 2 Peter 3:1-14 Jude 14-15 Revelation 1:7; 19:11–20:6; 22:7,12,20

Now what is Love, I pray thee tell? It is that fountain and that well Where pleasure and repentance dwell. It is perhaps that saucy bell That tolls all into heaven or hell- And this is Love, as I hear tell.

Il ne saurait remplir des coupes impures. Tout ce qui provient du moi, si infime que cela soit, est péché :

It is not true, what I said before, because I hated him. He was the war criminal, and after the war they hanged him. I was so happy I wept for joy when I heard he was dead. Then I shave my head and took the vow to stop hating.

No one is any longer carried away by the desire for the good to perform great things, no one is precipitated by evil into atrocious sins, and so there is nothing for either the good or the bad to talk about, and yet for that very reason people gossip all the more, since ambiguity is tremendously stimulating and much more verbose than rejoicing over goodness or repentance over evil.

salvation consists primarily in his beginning to sorrow earnestly over himself!

Oh Thou that givest both the beginning and the completion, give Thou victory in the day of need so that what neither a man's burning wish nor his determined resolution may attain to, may be granted unto him in the sorrowing of repentance: to will only one thing.