Quotes about Repentance

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

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

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

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.