Quotes About Repentance

There is always the hope that spiritual forces will be released which will work toward repentance and recovery.

Yet even now," says the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting." (Joel 2:12)

I have only my sins to blame for the state I'm in today.

He feels his soul slowly dissolving in a bitter lament for itself, whilst he searches desperately in his memory for a God to whom to offer up his repentance. And he discovers with surprise that he repents of nothing, although it is not clear either, as night closes in, that there is any God prepared to hear him.

Our sins are as a ghastly night, And seal with slumbers deep our sight.

Jehovah will smite Egypt, and by smiting heal: they will turn back to Jehovah, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them." (Isaiah 19:22.)

I worked for Satan most of my life and then one day I looked at myself I realised the harm that my lifestyle was doing.

We need Grace and forgiveness.

I have been guilty of wrong thinking.

I grew up Catholic, so I feel guilty about everything.

God's forgiveness is always in response to man's repentance. His

God's forgiveness toward us serves as a model of how we are to forgive others. The Scriptures say that we are to forgive each other, "just as God through Christ has forgiven you" (Ephesians 4:32). In this divine model, there are two essential elements—confession and repentance on the part of the sinner and forgiveness on the part of the one sinned against. In the Scriptures, these two are never separated.

I tell you, her sins—and they are many—have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only a little love. —Luke 7:47

I have not come to call those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent. —Luke 5:32

Then Peter came to him and asked, "Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?" "No, not seven times," Jesus replied, "but seventy times seven!" —Matthew 18:21–22

We cannot erase the past. We can only confess it and agree that it was wrong. We can ask for forgiveness and try to act differently in the future

So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them. . . . It broke his heart. —Genesis 6:6

Lord, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive? But you offer forgiveness, that we might learn to fear you. —Psalm 130:3–4

But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins. —Matthew 6:15

Can't you see that [God's] kindness is intended to turn you from your sin? —Romans 2:4

His eyes say quite plainly that he once trusted someone, that he has been repenting it for longer than you or I have been alive, and that he will never take the chance again.

Urban Trelawny is a bony man of fifty and more, with side whiskers. His eyes say quite plainly that he once trusted someone, that he has been repenting it for longer than you or I have been alive, and that he will never take the chance again.

Where there is no repentance, forgiveness is only permission by another name. I

Lo, what said King Solomon, who can teach us so well? 'Do not befriend an angry man, and walk not along the way with a madman, lest you repent.' I will no further say.