Quotes about Repentance
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
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