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Quotes About Repentance

Healing begins when we humble ourselves and go to one another asking for forgiveness.
~ Susan Alexander Yates
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon.
~ William Wallace
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.
~ William Wallace
The problem with saying or feeling 'sorry' is that it often comes after the damage is already done. (..........and a damage is a damage, small or big, it always leave an ugly mark on one's soul)
~ Asma Naqi
When true repentance occurs and lifestyles change, God can do marvelous works of restoration. Denying sin, however is not a characteristic of a repentant heart.
~ Lois Mowday Rabey
Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.
~ Jim George
What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?--"Wanda
~ Ouida
? doesn't wait to be told there's a need, it sees. ? never justifies a wrong, it repents. ? cannot retire, it has much to much work to do.
~ Pazaria Smith
They say nothing is my fault, and I wish they wouldn't say that. How can a man be forgiven if nothing is his fault?
~ Miriam Toews
I had an unusually deep need to be forgiven, even though I had done nothing wrong
~ Miriam Toews
Yaad rakho murdam azaari bohat hi buri cheez hai. Is ki bakhshish kahin nahi hai
~ Mirza Hadi Ruswa
Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die. But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. Exactly
~ Mitch Albom
You're not getting it, Eddie gently replied. I needed to save you. It let me make up for the life I took. That's how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.
~ Mitch Albom
That's how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.
~ Mitch Albom
That's how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.
~ Mitch Albom
Certain things, examined in the frozen light of retrospect, were simply unforgivable. He
~ Monica Wood
I want you to know that even though Ron forgave me, it does not mean that he forgot what I did. His forgiveness was a gift that I did not deserve or earn. However, I did need to earn his trust.
~ Nancy C. Anderson
Rich meant that this room with three beds and a table and chairs and a window filled with glass was something to say sorry for.
~ Naomi Novik
También nosotros somos llamados a ello, a través de aquel martirio interior que es la «compunción» - como la llamaba la tradición ascética y mística-, es decir, el corazón que se deja traspasar por el pecado de la humanidad, porque «el Amor no es amado», porque «Dios no es conocido», porque «Cristo es ofendido».
~ Carlo Maria Martini
One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
All the bad things you do in life come back to you, (David). And I've done a lot of bad things. A lot. But I've paid the price. (The Angel's Game)
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
One can covert only a sinner, never a saint.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
But our highest objective should be that our children would repent from their sins, put their trust in Jesus Christ, and reflect the gospel to the world around them.
~ Carolyn Mahaney
And in answer the words trembled on his lips - the words which are surely the root of all human grief - so that he almost said aloud : 'Almighty Host! Utmost power of the universe! I have done those things which I ought not to have done and left undone those things which I ought to have done. So this cannot truly be the end.
~ Carson McCullers