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Quotes About Repentance

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.
~ Mark Twain
I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
So what's the use of repentence, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn't matter why or when or how.
~ John Fante
So what's the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn't matter why or when or how.
~ John Fante
the call to faithfulness is a call I can answer. Faithful to follow, faithful to confess, faithful to obey, faithful to repent, faithful to believe, faithful to pray and seek God—all these are the requirements of faithfulness. All of them are doable and are, in fact, my responsibility and my joy, having been the unexpected recipient of so great a mercy.
~ John Fischer
Let it all out. Let's hear the litany of my sins. I'm a terrible girl. I'm irresponsible. I'm a disgrace to the royal house of Araluen.
~ John Flanagan
The difference between us and the one being disciplined by the church is not that we're not all sinners...but that we repent of our sin and he doesn't...we take God's side against our own sin
~ John Folmar
You sadly besotted souls, know and remember while you have a day before the golden thread of life is cut that, if you are found without Christ, faith, repentance, holiness but a moment after death, you are undone to eternity. After death, all means and hopes fail. There is no work nor device in the grace (Eccl. 9:10). God will then be irreconcilable; sin, unpardonable; heaven, not attainable; and your souls, lost irrevocably.
~ John Fox
Dear Lord and Father of mankind,Forgive our foolish ways!Reclothe us in our rightful mind,In purer lives Thy service find,In deeper reverence, praise.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Tomorrow is soon enough to contemplate the multitude of your sins." He
~ John Hart
Forgive your neighbor's injustice. Then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. —Ecclesiasticus 28:2
~ John J. Gobbell
Martyrs were innumerable, among them, Saint Denis, 3rd century bishop of Paris, who, when beheaded, calmly picked up his severed head and walked several miles to the site of the abbey that bears his name while preaching a sermon on repentance. It seems a long way but, as the French regularly point out, 'c'est le premier pas qui compte', it's the first step that counts.
~ John Julius Norwich
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Is it not far better to abhor sins by the remembrance of others' faults, than by repentance of thine own follies?
~ John Lyly
apologetics is also application of Scripture to unbelief. Unbelief is no respecter of persons. Both Christians and non-Christians wrestle with doubt and suspicion. A biblical apologetic targets unbelief wherever it may be found, strengthening the faith of Christians and calling unbelievers to repentance and faith in Christ. The
~ John M. Frame
you are moving to the death of having to describe the real face of your life to your God in his priest, and to beg forgiveness, and promise, for there is still time.
~ John McGahern
Though they had a chance. God forgives them if they would leave the devil and come to Him and go back to the people. They are not guilty of the devil's sins and He has declared them to be free of the devil's sins.
~ Elijah Muhammad
To regret your sins of commission as much as your sins of omission is to prove yourself a most unworthy sinner.
~ Elizabeth (Asquith) Bibesco
Too late, too late, juice pouring does not a kind soul make, and I killed you.
~ Elizabeth Scott
And remorse, well, to be able to show remorse—to be able to be sorry about what we've done that's hurt other people—that keeps us human.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I shall ask forgiveness for having fed on lies. - Farewell
~ Arthur Rimbaud
No sinner ever comes to Christ until the Holy Spirit first comes to him! And no sinner will savingly believe on Christ until the Spirit has communicated faith to him (Ephesians 2:5; Colossians 2:12); and even then, faith is an eye to discern Christ before it is a foot to approach Him.
~ Arthur W. Pink
David was at much pains to cover up his wickedness, but ere long the all-seeing God sent one of His servants to say to him, "Thou art the man"! And
~ Arthur W. Pink
Mourning over personal sin and failure is an indispensable stage in the process of sanctification, and it is facilitated by fasting.
~ Arthur Wallis