Quotes About Repentance

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.