Quotes about Repentance

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

Remorse is feeling sorry, while repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

Like the prodigal's father, God accepts us as we are. But He doesn't want to leave us that way. God will change us.

The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.

Rather than act like a victim who cannot do anything about myself or my circumstance, today I start the process of acknowledging my sin and removing these attitudes, actions, and sins that are unworthy of the new creation I am today in Christ. I can be free, and I will be free. I will be ALL that God intended for me to be!

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

I think, said Jane decidedly, that I should apologise to God.

Confession designed to restore lost blessings is a management technique, it is not repentance.

If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth" (1 John 1:8). It seems God leads us through failure toward maturity, rather than doing whatever is needed for us to move past ongoing failure.

Working diligently to straighten up our actions without understanding either what it means to deeply repent or what it is that needs to be scrubbed away by repentance will make us more smug than penetrating. We'll pressure others to do right rather than draw them to want to do right. P195

August] 26th. [1862] I am a patient man, always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.