Repentance Quotations

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

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

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour's calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world

I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

I decline to buy repentance at the cost often thousand drachmas.

Hurricane Katrina was a wake-up call to this country . . . It wakes us up to the fact that our God is sovereign and we should be constantly in a state of repentance humbly seeking God's favor.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Peace is the precious fruit of a righteous life. It is possible because of the Atonement of the Savior. It is earned through full repentance, for that leads to refreshing forgiveness.

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

True repentance is to cease from sin.

Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.

Repentance is for little children.

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

He that does not repent, sins again.

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

We are announcing for the last time that we are opening the door to repentance and for those to return to righteousness,

The sinning is the best part of repentance

Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off --to Missolonghi.

Instead of a clear call for repentance we have been offered warms words of sentimentality for those who have shown no godly sorrow for their actions.

The best part of repentance is little sinning

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

There's no repentance in the grave.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

The dream is short, repentance long.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

Heaven radiates the light of the future and a is mark of repentance and the only way to get there is to sell off successes and buy failures.

He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

True repentance always involves reform.

True repentance also involves reform.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance and hatred. There is so great a need for repentance and forgiveness. It is the great principle emphasized in all of scripture, both ancient and modern. Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.

Repentance follows hasty counsels.

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.

Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

But with morning cool repentance came.

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

Anger and Folly walk cheek-by-jole; Repentance treads on both their Heels.

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go, You can never wipe off the tears of woe