Quotes about Repentance
Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!
— Pope Francis
Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help.
— Jonathan Edwards
No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.
— Kevin DeYoung
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
— John Ortberg
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.
— St. Isidore of Seville
You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.
— Charles Spurgeon
Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.
— Martin Luther
You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.
— Max Lucado
If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.
— St. Basil
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
— RC Sproul
Know that once we have received Jesus, we can't continue to live our old sinful lifestyle. Now that we have His Holy Spirit living in us, guiding us, and transforming us, we have no excuse.
— Stormie Omartian