Quotes about Repentance
Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.
— Rob Bell
It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
— Alan Redpath
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
Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.
— Pope Francis
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