Quotes about Repentance
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
For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.
— Charles Spurgeon
O Lord forgive what I have been sanctify what I am and order what I shall be.
— Anonymous
How many of us will ever sit... bow our heads and pray "Lord show me where I'm wrong"?
— Anonymous