Quotes About Repentance

The purpose of continuous repentance in the life of a quality man is not a return to the crisis of salvation but part of what the Bible calls sanctification

Yet many are living that very life, deluded by weak preaching and deceived by biblical illiteracy into thinking grace coddles the unrepentant.

God will call; they won't answer. Stubbornness of the heart is a terminal sickness. There is no solution for that condition apart from repentance and God's work of grace to break the heart.

God can and will wipe all that shame and sadness away if you will only repent.

Revival begins here: with a profound awareness of God's absolute holiness, our absolute sinfulness, and our complete inability to bridge the divide that separates us.

The fourth step of the examen is asking for forgiveness from God for anything sinful that you've done during the day.

So rather than repent of sin and turn for mercy to a God who is altogether sovereign, holy, knowing, and unchangeable, men and women suppress what knowledge they have and refuse to seek out that additional knowledge that could be the salvation of their souls.

Forgive me for all the things I did but mostly for the things I did not.

For your penance, say two Hail Marys, three our Fathers, and, he added, with a chuckle, say a special prayer for the Dodgers.

It's painful thinking of the people one has been cruel to.

Five years ago your brother Lymond was found to have been selling his own country for years: he's been kicked from land to land committing every crime on the calendar and now he's back here, God forgive him, with filthier habits and a nastier mind than he set out with.

Don't wrest from me my repentance. A whoremonger, a haunter of stews, a hypocrite, a wretch and a maker of strife.

I am Michael, the sword of God. The edge is turned toward thee: not for those sins whereof thou dost repent, lust, greed, wrath, avarice, the faults of flesh sloughed off with the flesh, but that which feeds the soul, the sin that is so much a part of thee thou know'st it not for sin.

Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage.

I am ready,' said Gilda Farren, 'to forgive—' 'Never do that,' said Wimsey. 'Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.

Thou needs must spit it out and make clean thy mouth.

Old sins have long shadows.

Eski günahlar?n gölgesi uzun olur

Los viejos pecados tienen largas sombras

Remorse," she said, with great gusto. "Remorse?

Merciful Father.... I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only, to live the next few minutes well. For all we ought to have thought and have not thought... All we ought to have said and have not said. All we ought to have done and have not done. I pray thee, God for forgiveness.

How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.