Quotes About Repentance

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

When we sin, we do not infuriate God, our Lover. We only hurt Him. We grieve Him!

El autor habla allí de los primeros principios sobre los cuales han sido instruidos los lectores cuando primeramente se convirtieron en cristianos. Estos primeros principios son: arrepentimiento, fe, bautismo, imposición de manos, resurrección y juicio eterno. Ahora bien, los judíos no tenían que ser instruidos en estos asuntos elementales puesto que los conocían desde el comienzo.

The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth (2 Tim. 2:24-25).

He seems truly sorry.

It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn't mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude.

Make them imagine repentance more like an appearance in court before a cranky old judge, less like a child knocking on his father's study door to have a chat.

They view repentance as the thing they have to do in order to earn forgiveness, therefore the more difficult they make it, the more credit they tally up.

Remember, this type doesn't really believe He'll forgive them, by repenting they are trying to earn what they do not think, in any case, He will pay.

Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don't feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they're stuck right where they started: Guilty.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Conversion" expresses the idea better than repentance. "Repentance" suggests primarily sorrow for sin; metanoia suggests a change of mind; the Hebrew idea involves the turning around of the whole person toward God.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

There's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now they did for me. I say remorse not repentance. I doubt if I have ever experienced repentance in a pure form; perhaps it does not exist in a pure form. Remorse contains guilt, but helpless hopeless guilt which knows of no cure for the painful bite.

Brooding about the past is so often fantasy of how one might have won and resentment that one didn't. It is that resentment which one so often mistakes for repentance

You're always wanting to be forgiven. What do you want to be forgiven for?

Her anger was against herself, for her frivolity and her blindness.

Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia.

Remorse begets reform.

A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday.

Wash you, make you clean.

Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.