Quotes about Repentance
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
— Elbert Hubbard
It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.
— Pope Francis
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
— Frederick Buechner
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be…religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell." —WILLIAM BOOTH, founder of The Salvation Army
— Mario Murillo
If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.
— Mark Batterson
Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.
— Mark Batterson
Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.
— Mark Driscoll
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
— St. Augustine
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
— Jimmy Carter
In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.
— Martin Luther
We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair.
— Martin Luther
Dominus et magister n? Jesus Chrs? dicendo, Penitentiam agite etc, omn? vitam fidelium penitentiam esse voluit. (Our Lord and teacher, Jesus Christ, in saying, "repent," wanted the entire life life of a believer to be repentance.)
— Martin Luther