Quotes About Repentance

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, Wait on time.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

This is the glory of our religion: that when man decides to rise up from his mistakes, from his sin, from his evil, there is a loving God saying, "Come home, I still love you.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be coworkers with God, and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.

Thousands acknowledge they are sinners, who have never mourned over the fact.

If man is a totally depraved being, can he possibly take the first step in the matter of his return to God?

I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chron. 7:14).

I sat up and my mouth tasted horrible, like stale pot, beer and Cheetos. The exact combination of ingredients that had caused me to pass into unconsciousness on Natalie's floor.

There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.

all the bad things I do will go up in smoke and so will I if

I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone.

Don't go looking for something psychological that isn't there. I have a bath after any kind of strenuous exercise. It doesn't mean I feel dirty," though he did, "it doesn't mean I'm trying to wash you out of my life," though he was, "it doesn't mean guilt, shame, repentance or anything like that," though it did. "It just means I want a bath.

people are not capable of being evil, they are only capable of evil; that is the crucial difference that allows repentance and forgiveness

How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

Sorrow for a wrong was better than nothing...but no amount of after-the-fact sorrow could ever atone for joy taken in destruction...

One mistake cannot justify another.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

They shift the blame rather than taking the responsibility for their wrongs. Those under witchcraft's control think they never do anything wrong. When caught they say there is nothing for which to repent. They tell you directly, "I haven't done anything wrong" or "I did what I thought was right. I don't have anything to feel sorry about." They never manifest any true repentance or humility.

I am a great sinner," said the dying Newton, "but Christ is a great Savior.

The heart is like a viper, hissing and spitting poison at God.

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

We can't be saved without being good, but 'tis not because our goodness is sufficient, or can do anything of itself. But 'tis because all whose hearts come to Christ will be good, and if men ben't good, their hearts never will come to Christ.