Quotes About Repentance

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

Remorse is feeling sorry, while repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

Like the prodigal's father, God accepts us as we are. But He doesn't want to leave us that way. God will change us.

And when you left, I didn't feel anything at all. Not a thing. I didn't want to be forgiven because of what I did. I wanted to be forgiven—and I still

But reason didn't play a big part in the guilt I'd felt, deep in my heart, since the moment I'd seen his dead face beneath its shroud of snow. Once I'd faced it, I couldn't shake the shame. And somehow, the blame and repining sorrow changed me. I felt the vengeful stone fall from the hating hand that had wanted to throw it. I felt light, as if light itself filled me and lifted me up. And I felt free - free enough to pity Madame Zhou, and even to forgive her.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Most humbly, my beloved Saviour, I bow myself before thee. I am a worm and no man. I alone deserve to suffer. I alone shrink from suffering. I was with thee in thy days of joy, singing 'Hosanna,' and I wished to make thee King. Now, in thine hour of suffering, I am far from thee.

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.

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

I've seen too many sunrises, as far as the walk of shame, staying out too late doing very bad things.

Truly saying sorry is never easy to do, and when you are, you just hope it's not too late.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

Aliviado de su arrepentimiento (esa suspensión del ser en la que uno empieza a darse cuenta de qué es lo que ha hecho), apenas cinco minutos después Nudler ya era de nuevo el mismo que era la primera vez que lo vi, y seguramente el mismo que unas horas atrás había golpeado a Trini.

Comenzamos a crecer cuando exponemos nuestros errores, pues es la única oportunidad que tenemos para arrepentirnos, cambiar y poder ver nuestra miseria.

True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything".

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. —Thomas Fuller

All my deeds are dark. I am drawn in the river of my sins as deep as the Nile. They say the day of reckoning never turns dark. So it shall be, unless my deeds are brought to light.

Repentance, rebirth, and conversion were exchanged for cheap grace, and the integrity of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus faded. People join the church in droves, but Christian disciples were hard to come by. Christianity had an identity crisis. It's the same old story of the forbidden fruit--it's the beautiful things that get us. It's the things that seem good, but are not quite of God, that steer us off the course of holiness into destructiveness.

Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.