Quotes about Repentance
The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.
- Charles Spurgeon
Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God.
- Mother Teresa
During the season of Lent which begins today, we renew our commitment to the path of conversion, making more room for God in our lives.
- Pope Benedict XVI
I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
- David Brainerd
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
- Johannes Tauler
Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.
- AW Tozer
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.
- Billy Graham
God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
- Charles Spurgeon
If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.
- Timothy Keller
If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
- Tony Campolo
Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.
- Johannes Tauler