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Quotes about Repentance

We bowed our heads together, and I prayed and then Nimmie prayed. Hers was a beautiful, simple prayer, beginning in faith and repentance and ending with joy and praise.
- Janette Oke
We must obey God rather than orders from men. Jehovah has raised Jesus from the dead and declared him the Messiah, to bring Israel to repentance. We are witnesses of all this, as is the Holy Spirit, the one God has given to those who obey.
- Janette Oke
Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.
- Kevin DeYoung
Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.
- Phillips Brooks
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon.
- William Wallace
AN ELDER was asked by a certain soldier if God would forgive a sinner. And he said to him: Tell me, beloved, if your cloak is torn, will you throw it away? The soldier replied and said: No. I will mend it and put it back on. The elder said to him: If you take care of your cloak, will God not be merciful to His own image?
- Thomas Merton
We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by our brothers. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus for us manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.
- Thomas Merton
Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.
- CS Lewis
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
- George Eliot
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
- George Eliot
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
- St. Augustine
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
- Teresa of Avila