Quotes about Repentance
The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
- John Bunyan
The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.
- JD Greear
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
- JC Ryle
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
- Charles Spurgeon
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
- JC Ryle
Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
- JC Ryle
There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.
- John Bunyan
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
- JC Ryle
Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.
- Charles Spurgeon
If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.
- JC Ryle
Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical amendment of life; not before.
- AW Tozer