Quotes about Repentance

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.

Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.

The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself…I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me…Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

No poor creature stands in need of divine grace more than I, and none abuse it more than I have done, and still do.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.