Quotes about Repentance

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

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

If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.

Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

Christ doesn't want sinners who refuse to admit that they're sinners.

In addition, when these men were confronted, they did not stubbornly persist in their sins but repented. Paul commands that we should accept, instruct, and restore such people (Galatians 6:1). So those who sin and fall because of weakness will not be refused forgiveness if they stand up again and do not persist in their sin. Persisting in sin is disastrous.