Quotes about Repentance
When we are overtaken with a sin, we sometimes fail to analyze how we fell. This is to our great disadvantage. We repent of the sin, but we do not consider the temptation that was the cause of it.
- John Owen
Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.
- Billy Sunday
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
- Oscar Wilde
His confession is said to have taken three days to make, and he received absolution from one of the monks there. He exchanged his nobleman's dress for the simple outfit of a poor pilgrim and made a night vigil
- Margaret Silf
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
- John Bunyan
Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.
- TB Joshua
Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before
- Karl Barth
How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
- John Henry Newman
We don't preach salvation. We preach forgiveness.
- Leonard Ravenhill
After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.
- AW Pink
Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
- CS Lewis
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
- Elbert Hubbard