Quotes About Repentance

Dear me," Romulan said, "worst of all my execrable failings, to bring you, sir, to such a display.

The old Confession was written by men who knew what it felt like to have done bad things: "We do earnestly repent, and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings; The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; The burden of them is intolerable." Indeed.

A change of heart isn't really sufficient recompense for a great sin. It has to be affirmed by some kind of repentant action or the mind can't purge the guilt, and if we try to deny this, then the soul finds its own penance.

I might ask the Lord to please help me not to be a certain way, but not to forgive me. Pointless.

Absolution is not the same as understanding.

Water says to the dirty, "Come here" The dirty one says, "I am so ashamed". Water says, "How will your shame be washed away without me?" Rumi, Mathnawi II: 1366-67

Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.

I repented at 28 and turned to Jesus.

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.

Are you troubled by demons of fear or doubt? Submit those areas to God, repenting of your unbelief, and then yield yourself to Christ's faith within you. Are you troubled with spirits of lust and shame? Present those very areas of sin to God, repent of your old nature and draw upon the forgiveness of Christ and His purity of heart.

Finally, simply do what you know to do. If you stumble, get up. If you sin, repent. Whatever you do, in spite of your feelings, do not lose your vision of Christlikeness. Your vision is your surest hope. Guard it. If you are faithful to your goal of Christlikeness, God will give you the grace to live in His presence. And when Christ, who is your life, is revealed, you also will be revealed with Him in glory (Col. 3:3–4). —FRANCIS FRANGIPANE

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

When we proclaim that someone is subhuman, we not only remove for them the possibility of change and repentance, we also remove from them moral responsibility.

He sido malo por muchos caminos y habiendo dejado de ser malo, no soy bueno, porque he dejado el mal de cansado y no de arrepentido.

But no one will understand Oscar Wilde who for a moment loses sight of the fact that he was a pagan born: as Gautier says, "One for whom the visible world alone exists," endowed with all the Greek sensuousness and love of plastic beauty; a pagan, like Nietzsche and Gautier, wholly out of sympathy with Christianity, one of "the Confraternity of the faithless who "cannot" believe," (His own words in "De Profundis.") to whom a sense of sin and repentance are symptoms of weakness and disease.

I've confessed to everything and I'd liked to be hanged. Now, if you please.

How true, lamentably true. I'm sorry, Father. I do not love my neighbor as myself.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Christ Ransomed, Redeemed, Delivered, and Saved us from the power of Death. As long as we cling to him, repenting of our sins and resisting them as best we can, we are saved.

You must forgive them, my child. Forgiveness is a part of penitence.

When we're tempted to give up, we must remember God is long-suffering, change is a process, and repentance is a pattern in our lives.

Another dirt clod smashed against the wall in a gritty burst. And another. He could not throw them hard enough. Part of him wished somebody was throwing the dirt clods at him. Or beating him, or locking him in jail. He had no means to express how remorseful he felt, no way to pay for what he had done. And no way to fix the mistake.