Quotes about Repentance

if I am faithfully and regularly acknowledging my sin to God, it's much easier to apologize to my husband because I'm already in the habit of saying "I'm sorry" to God.

It's never too late for repentance. With God's help we can chart a new course and set our sails in the direction of obedience to God.

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.

We always assume that there's tomorrow to make things right. Maybe that's why the Bible says to not procrastinate your day of repentance.

the more that sin is seen, the more it is hated, and therefore it is less. Dust particles are in a room before the sun shines, but they only appear then.

The biblical word for personal change is repentance.

There are those, like the church websites quoted at the beginning of this chapter, who put it quite clearly: "We get one life to choose heaven or hell, and once we die, that's it. One or the other, forever." God in the end doesn't get what God wants, it's declared, because some will turn, repent, and believe, and others won't.

I didn't think about its being wrong to go in and try on the brooch; but I see now that it was and I'll never do it again. That's one good thing about me. I never do the same naughty thing twice

There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.

For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.

Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.