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Quotes About Repentance

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it.
~ Jimmy Carter
He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.
~ Bible
In Adam's Fall We sinned all.
~ New England Primer
I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart.
~ Bible
Many without punishment, none without sin.
~ John Ray
'Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ages 100–101. — May you live to be a hundred years With one extra year to repent.
~ Irish toast
Let yourself remember and visualize the ways you have hurt others. See the pain you have caused out of your own fear and confusion. Feel your own sorrow and regret. Sense that finally you can release this burden and ask for forgiveness. Take as much time as you need to picture each memory that still burdens your heart.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Do you hope you can expiate the crimes of the past by suffering in the present?
~ J.M. Coetzee
I hope that in the afterlife we will get a chance, each of us, to say our sorries to the people we have wronged.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Pero el arrepentimiento no funciona, ¿verdad? El arrepentimiento, la contrición. Es la flecha del tiempo: no se la puede hacer girar. No hay vuelta atrás.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
~ Jack Kerouac
The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
~ Saint Patrick
Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
~ William Nelson
The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.
~ William Gurnall
I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah
~ Rabia Basri
Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.
~ Clement of Alexandria
Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
~ Coco Chanel
The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient
~ Abu Madyan
I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.
~ Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
Vices are their own punishment
~ Aesop
Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins.
~ Aisha bint Abi Bakr
I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
~ C.P. Snow, The Masters