Quotes About Repentance

The blackest things a man can do, I have done them all!

Mark this, my son: all people fall into sin. But sinning, they are not for ever lost Hapless and helpless, who can make amends And has not set their face against repentance. Only a fool is governed by self-will.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

I was a pretty bad person early in my life.

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

There is hope for the sinner to be made a saint.

Repent heart, rebirth of spirit.

Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev'd.

A secret dependence upon our prayers, tears, resolutions, repentance and endeavors, prevents us from looking solely and simply to the Savior, so as to ground our whole hope for acceptance upon his obedience unto death, and his whole mediation.

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.

Before the work of grace the heart is 'stony.' It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

The coronavirus is God's thunderclap call for all of us to repent and realign our lives with the infinite worth of Christ... The reason God exposes us to such losses is to rouse us to rely on Christ. Or to put it another way, the reason he makes calamity the occasion for offering Christ to the world is that the supreme, all-satisfying greatness of Christ shines more brightly when Christ sustains joy in suffering.

Conversion, then, involves repentance (turning from sin and unbelief) and faith (trusting in Christ alone for salvation).9 They are really two sides of the same coin. One side is tails—turn tail on the fruits of unbelief. The other side is heads—head straight for Jesus and trust His promises. You can't have the one without the other any more than you can face two ways at once or serve two masters.

Everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed." Concealed sin keeps us from seeing the light of Christ.

God is justified. God is blameless. If God casts David into hell, God will be innocent. This is radical, God-centered repentance.

I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD" (Ezekiel 18:32).

The only sin that we can defeat is a forgiven sin.

When you see carnage and "random" horror, hear the voice of God: "Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish" (Luke 13:3, 5).

My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water" (Jer. 2:13).

God is mercifully shouting to us in these days: Wake up! Sin against God is like this! It is horrible and ugly. And far more dangerous than the coronavirus.

the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.