Quotes about Repentance

Guilt and condemnation are meant to destroy us, but conviction is meant to bring us to repentance.

WHEN THERE IS NO REPENTANCE It is, unfortunately, man's nature to redefine laws — commandments if you will — in order to accommodate his preferred lifestyle. In other words, rather than adjusting his errant deeds to conform to the reality of God's laws, he will move or erase the boundaries of law so as to include that which he doesn't wish to change about his life. If he can't or won't rein in his evil inclination, he will ignore that which

Then my anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured." — DEUTERONOMY 31:17

But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.’ So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.

Now please forgive my sin once more and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death from me.”

How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.