Quotes about Repentance

When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor earth.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

A man walks on through life - with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns 'round. The word 'repentance' means 'turning 'round.' He repents and believes and is saved.

With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully.