Quotes about Repentance

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.

Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God.

If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen.

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.