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Quotes About Repentance

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
~ Saint Augustine
Ye are fallen from grace.
~ Galatians
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.
~ Archibald Alexander
If Americans will face the truth, our nation can be turned around and can be saved from the evils and the destruction that have fallen upon every other nation that has turned its back on God.
~ Jerry Falwell
The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.
~ John Woolman
I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.
~ Bede Griffiths
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
~ Mark Twain
Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
~ Matthew Simpson
I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.
~ Aurangzeb
Oh, I wish I'd come over here once in a while! That was a crime! That was a crime! Who's going to punish that?
~ Susan Glaspell
But here's an even better truth: God knows you can't make it right. None of it. But He can. The day I took a good look at my sins—my real sins—was the day I discovered 1 John 1:9. 'But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
~ Susan May Warren
It is both a time for repentance and a time for thanks,
~ Suzanne Collins
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
~ John Webster
I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
You can say you're sorry 5,000 times, but that doesn't mean you mean it.
~ Khloe Kardashian
I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.
~ Jayson Blair
Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.
~ Jack Abramoff
It's very hard for me to say I'm sorry... but I do.
~ Joe Nichols
I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
~ Malcolm X
When I say, 'I'm sorry,' it's because I regret something.
~ Luis Suarez
I let a lot of people down, and for that I am truly sorry.
~ Ant McPartlin
People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
~ Macaulay Culkin