Quotes about Repentance

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.