Quotes About Repentance

I have committed grave sins, and the Lord has closed his eyes. I have called him an izpravnik. He has covered his ears. He is so great that our badness becomes small.

Distress that drives us to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation. We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive them away from God are full of regrets, end up on a deathbed of regrets.

Psalm 134, the final Song of Ascents, provides the evidence. The way of discipleship that begins in an act of repentance (t?shubah) concludes in a life of praise (b?rakah).

Psalm 120 is the psalm of repentance—the one that gets us out of an environment of deceit and hostility and sets us on our way to God. Psalm 121 is the psalm of trust—a demonstration of how faith resists patent-medicine remedies to trials and tribulations and determinedly trusts God to work out his will and "guard you from every evil" in the midst of difficulty

If you have anything against someone, forgive — only then will your heavenly Father be inclined to also wipe your slate clean of sins.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

The Israelites frequently forsook God, and he as frequently forsook them. But when they repented and returned to him, he remembered his covenant and delivered them from their distresses.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God's grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.

Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.

True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

Repentance is accepted remorse.