Quotes about Repentance
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
— John Owen
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
— Jonathan Edwards
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
— CS Lewis
A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
— CS Lewis
Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.
— Ambrose of Milan
Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.
— Thomas Watson
It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.
— Cyril of Alexandria
If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?
— Charles Spurgeon
A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
— Jonathan Edwards
Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.
— JC Ryle
A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.
— Leonard Ravenhill