Quotes About Repentance

Even if God forgives you, you do not forgive yourself. You live in your sorrow like a room of mirrors that reflects on and on to eternity.

How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!

In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.

And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse—a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred—about my whole life.

Repentance is simply agreeing with God about our wrong and then doing an about-face and walking in the other direction, committing the sin no more.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.

When we undertake to cover our sins, . . . behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.