Quotes About Repentance

Feeling foolish, I scowled at her. "Does it amuse you to mock me, my lady?" "A little." Refreshed by sleep, her eyes sparkled unrepentantly. "You are so very serious, my shadow.

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.

She thought of herself as his strength; in a world of shadows, the indisputable reality to which he could always repair. And, again, for all that had come, she could not regret this. She had tried, but she had never been and was not now, even tonight, truly sorry. Where, then, was her repentance? And how could God hear her cry?

I did not understand the dreams I had at night, but I knew that they were not holy. For that matter, I knew that my waking hours were far from holy. I spent most of my time in a state of repentance for things I had vividly desired to do but had not done.

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Shame without repentance doesn't lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong.

Very early in my culinary career, while helping another cook prepare the staff meal, I stirred some chopped raw garlic and herbs into a bowl of leftover lentils. The atonement for this sin was so extreme that I've never repeated it: After being chastised, I spent the next 20 minutes fishing out the minuscule pieces of garlic.

When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.