Quotes About Repentance

So much of their Scriptures was poetic and figurative language, like Jesus's parables about the kingdom of heaven. When Simon asked him why he spoke in parables, he quoted Isaiah about how the people's hearts were dulled and their eyes blinded by their own sin. So Yahweh would keep the secrets of the kingdom of heaven from everyone except those who repented. How much more of their hope and understanding was darkened by such hidden language from Yahweh?

the sacrifice." Eleazer took a bull and killed it for his own sins, letting the blood drain into a bronze basin. He would then clean the animal and burn it on the brazen altar of sacrifice that stood before the bronze laver. Caleb quizzed Achsah some more. "And what is the purpose of the high priest sacrificing for himself first?" She said, "He too is in need of forgiveness of sins to be able to represent his people.

My lord!" she exclaimed and began to kiss his feet. He pulled away from her, bent down, and out of earshot of his men, he whispered, "It is I who should be kissing your feet, for Yahweh has spoken to me through you when I would not listen to him in any other way. Go, my sister. Return to your husband and know that I will pray that he will be broken and repent of his mistreatment of such an excellent wife that he does not deserve.

There is no Christianity unless first there is repentance. And it is not just, "Well, I am guilty." It is not just a conviction. It is a conviction plus a desire to turn away from those things.

But rather, his "delay" simply reveals his loving patience toward you, because he does not want any to perish but all to come to repentance.k

9Fools mock the need for repentance,b while the favor of God rests upon all his lovers.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

When I consider the blessings God has given and still continues to give me, I feel ashamed. I feel I have abused those blessings, barely using them profitably to become more like Christ. Still, God in His mercy gives us a little more time. We can begin all over again and repair the lost opportunity, returning with complete confidence to this kind Father, who is always ready to receive us lovingly.

The Savior asks us to repent not just to repay him for paying our debt to justice, but also to induce us to undergo the personal development that will purify our very nature. The 'natural man' will remain an enemy to God forever—even after paying for his own sins—unless he also 'becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord.' (Mosiah 3:19.)

Carnell saw the purpose of Christian apologetics as removing from critics any excuse for not repenting before God. He was convinced that "men who refuse Christ because of presumed 'logical errors' in Christianity are men with a self-righteousness in the area of knowledge.

Grace-focused ministers recognize the daily repentance that private prayers must include, confess to others the divine aid that grants them the strength of their resolutions, obey God in loving thankfulness for the forgiveness and future Christ supplies, model

Remorse precedes true repentance. Changed behavior follows true repentance. But this necessary prelude and postlude of true repentance are not themselves the essence of repentance. True repentance is a denial that anything in us ever would or ever could satisfy God's holiness or compel his pardon. We humbly concede that we can offer him nothing for what he alone can give. Then we rest in his promise to forgive those who humbly seek him.

He may be angry at our rebellion, but he is never angry at our return.

Guilt should drive us to the cross, but grace must lead us from it.

Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance; we sail in the peace its boundless waters provide.

Grace is never out of view. Grace secures our relationship with God despite our sin. Grace maintains our forgiveness despite the inadequacies of our repentance. Grace filters the consequences of sin in order to protect us from spiritual harm. When this grace captures our hearts, it compels us to love and serve the God who provides its lavish, loving, and lasting provisions.

Repetition of a sin is no reason to abandon confession.

Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.

False repentance is less concerned with the spiritual contamination of sin than it is with the personal consequences of sin. True repentance is chiefly concerned with the wrong we have done to our Savior and to others. Repentance of the first kind is self-preoccupied; true repentance is a selfless seeking of spiritual fellowship and renewal. False repentance flees correction; true repentance seeks it.

Repentance is not a turning from one category of works to another; rather it is a turning from human works entirely to God.

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.

If I look narrowly into the best of what I do now, I still see sin, new sin, mixing itself with the best of that I do; so that now I am forced to conclude that, notwithstanding my former fond conceits of myself and duties, I have committed sin enough in one duty to send me to hell, though my former life had been faultless.

as a general lassitude overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amorous errors.