Quotes about Repentance
I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.
- St. Jerome
Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.
- St. Jerome
All are making haste towards hell, until by conviction, Christ brings them to a halt, and then, by conversion, turns their hearts and lives sincerely to himself.
- Richard Baxter
Publicans and harlots do sooner come to heaven than Pharisees, because they are sooner convinced of their sin and misery.
- Richard Baxter
O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]
- Richard Baxter
As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).
- Richard Baxter
If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it.
- Richard Blackaby
Yes, transformation is often more about unlearning than learning, which is why the religious traditions call it "conversion" or "repentance.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
the Greek word meta-noia, which literally means to move "beyond the mind," is usually translated "repentance" and no longer points to its much deeper meaning.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
- Abraham Lincoln
Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer
- Charles Spurgeon
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
- St. Augustine