Quotes About Repentance

We Germans have a special responsibility to be alert, sensitive, and aware of what we did during the Nazi era and about lasting damage caused in other countries. I've got tremendous sympathy for that.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

We were so little when you took away all our sins.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

Don't say that a loving God is going to send you to hell- He's not. The thing that's going to send you to hell is that you're a sinner and you don't want to admit it.

When Allah grants us the sense to ask Him for forgiveness, then He has granted us a huge favor. It's a sign that He wants to forgive us.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one's sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

The only person who needs forgiveness is the one who doesn't deserve it.

Want to please God? Then go back over the history that's causing you regret and honestly face every single moment of it.

Refusing to acknowledge and embrace your sinful past is choosing your love for yourself over your love of God.

14"If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. 15But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.

The great objection of a penitent is, I have sinned, and I know not whether God will receive me: consider, God knows your sin better than you do, yet he kindly calls to you, and promises you as good a reception as if you had never sinned.

If we were to press the pause button, repent, and move prayer to a place of priority in our families, schedules, and church lives, everything would be ignited and impacted by it.

A.C.T.S.—Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication.

The lack of humility in today's culture is in part what blinds us to our desperate need to seek God daily in prayer and to walk in repentance.

Praying with an unrepentant heart. The psalmist realized, "If I had cherished sin in my heart, the LORD would not have listened; but God has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer" (Psalm 66:18–19 NIV). Clinging to sin and stiff-arming God makes God stiff-arm us. If you hold on to sin and refuse to confess it, you cannot take full hold on God.

All these do-gooders make it sound like you just have to repent and off you go to heaven, but what about all the atrocities the Catholic religion did to us? Who pays for that! They just took over our lives!!

The reason we feel guilty before the God of the universe is because we are guilty and because God is really God. So, if you feel guilty, you've made a very good start. At least you are beginning at the right place. Properly understood, that is the bridge you cross that will get you to God in prayer. But

Forgive me, Lord, for the smallness and selfishness of my mind. Amen.

make the amende honorable

Confess. Admit that you've sinned—that you have harmed your own human being in some way. Repent—that is, make an agreement to stop. Do penance, which means to offer yourself forgiveness. Modify your behavior from that moment forward.