Quotes about Repentance

Repentance is accepted remorse. Votes: 4

Repentance is another name for aspiration. Votes: 4

Repentance is words, God forgives the kind. Votes: 4

Repentance is a gift of God's grace. Votes: 4

Repentance is but want of power to sin. Votes: 4

Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man. Votes: 4

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. Votes: 4

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort. Votes: 4

Repentance is accepted remorse." Votes: 3

Repentance follows hasty counsels. Votes: 3

Repentance is belief in action." Votes: 3

Repentance is for little children. Votes: 3

Repentance is belief in action. Votes: 3

Repentance restores your relationship with God. Votes: 3

Guilt is non-acceptance. Repentance is acceptance." Votes: 3

Repentance is the vomit of the soul. Votes: 3

Repentance is the vomit of the soul." Votes: 3

Repentance is the virtue of weak minds. Votes: 3

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine. Votes: 3

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated. Votes: 3

Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness. Votes: 3

Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance. Votes: 3

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past. Votes: 3

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. Votes: 3

Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it." Votes: 3

Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you. Votes: 3

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. Votes: 3

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame." Votes: 3

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame. Votes: 3

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. Votes: 3

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life." Votes: 3

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life. Votes: 3

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change. Votes: 3

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it. Votes: 3

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies. Votes: 3

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid. Votes: 3

Repentance is the highest form of worship that a man can give to God. Votes: 3

Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God. Votes: 3

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct. Votes: 3

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future. Votes: 3

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. Votes: 3

Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment. Votes: 3

Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God. Votes: 3

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. Votes: 3

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance. Votes: 3

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals Votes: 3

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed. Votes: 3

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. Votes: 3

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals. Votes: 3

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven. Votes: 3

Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life. Votes: 3

Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit. Votes: 3

Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun. Votes: 3

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another. Votes: 3

Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind. Votes: 3

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything. Votes: 3

Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy. Votes: 3

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Votes: 3

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin. Votes: 3

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue. Votes: 3

There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop. Votes: 3

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please. Votes: 3

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. Votes: 3

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. Votes: 3

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance. Votes: 3

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change." Votes: 3

Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us Votes: 3

Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins. Votes: 3

Likewise, we continue to follow Jesus as we struggle with sin. Repentance ushers us into a life of greater struggle, not out of one." Votes: 3

Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart. Votes: 3

Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it. Votes: 3

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death. Votes: 3

Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God. Votes: 3

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change. Votes: 3

Come, fill the Cup, in the fire of SpringYour Winter-garment of Repentance fling:The Bird of Time has but a little wayTo flutter--and the Bird is on the Wing" Votes: 3

Repentance is possible only when faith is present and where there is faith, repentance will also be found. Faith gives birth to repentance, and repentance is the evidence of faith." Votes: 3

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. Votes: 3

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it. Votes: 3

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears! Votes: 3

Repentance is not merely turning away from your sin but turning to the Lamb who takes away your sinBehold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". 1 John 1:29" Votes: 3

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place. Votes: 3

Every soul confined to a concentration camp of sin and guilt has a key to the gate. The adversary cannot hold them if they know how to use it. The key is labeled Repentance." Votes: 3

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing. Votes: 3

Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation. Votes: 3

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like. Votes: 3

It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct. Votes: 3

Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit. Votes: 3

What do we do when we meet Christ? We change. The profound conversion experience found in Jesus Christ is, as a rule, synonymous with repentance. Repentance is an admission that our way is wrong and God's way is right. Votes: 3

Repentance means to have a hearty, thorough, change of mind and it includes the idea of rejecting and renouncing the sinful, filthy lifestyle you've been living. And for the most part, fags cannot repent because they're proud of their sin. Votes: 3

Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration. Votes: 3

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God. Votes: 3

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated. Votes: 3

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. Votes: 3

If repentance were perfection, none of those people repented. Repentance, however, means recognizing Jesus' authority and submitting to it, even though you know your heart is weak, divided, and pulled in conflicting directions. Repentance includes a plea for God to change your inconsistent divided heart. (Psalm 86:11; Mark 9:24)" Votes: 3

Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged." Votes: 3

Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged. Votes: 3

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God. Votes: 3

One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies. Votes: 3

The development of faith in the Lord is an individual matter. Repentance is also an individual matter. Only as an individual can one be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost. Each of us is born individually; likewise, each of us is "born again" individually. Salvation is an individual matter. Votes: 3

Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust. Votes: 3

True repentance is to cease from sin. Votes: 2

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. Votes: 2

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin. Votes: 2

I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae. Votes: 2

No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Votes: 2

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. Votes: 2

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. Votes: 2

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness. Votes: 2

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance. Votes: 2

Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate sin itself. Votes: 2

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways. Votes: 2

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell. Votes: 2

Conversion is not completing a ritual, it is commencing a relationship. The assurance of ritual is based on accurate words and memory. The assurance of relationship is based on a present posture of repentance and belief." Votes: 2

Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it. Votes: 2

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. Votes: 2

An arrogant laughs at repentance." Votes: 1

Bad men are full of repentance. Votes: 1

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless." Votes: 1

A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind" Votes: 1

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance." Votes: 1

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. Votes: 1

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance." Votes: 1

All of a Christian's life is one of repentance." Votes: 1

What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance." Votes: 1

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment." Votes: 1

With sin comes fatigue. With repentance comes temptation. With beatification comes ugliness." Votes: 1

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness. Votes: 1

Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor earth." Votes: 1

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin." Votes: 1

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless." Votes: 1

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace." Votes: 1

Our reactions reflect our repentance. Our practices reveal our priorities. Changed lives change lives." Votes: 1

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time." Votes: 1

Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance." Votes: 1

Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb." Votes: 1

The heart is not cleansed with ordinary water,, but with tears of shame and repentance,," Votes: 1

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame." Votes: 1

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment." Votes: 1

Three, Christians who practice repentance should be the only ones allowed into church membership and leadership." Votes: 1

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. Votes: 1

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy." Votes: 1

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition. Votes: 1

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Votes: 1

Enthusiasm, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience." Votes: 1

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment." Votes: 1

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none." Votes: 1

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord. Votes: 1

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough." Votes: 1

What is unhealthy is every wallowing in guilt which does not lead to confession, repentance, faith in Jesus Christ and so forgiveness." Votes: 1

Spending one's last moments prostrated before the toilet is the supreme act of repentance. It allows one to relieve a heavy inner burden." Votes: 1

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it." Votes: 1

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone." Votes: 1

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone. Votes: 1

Of all the acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults . . . is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle)" Votes: 1

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance." Votes: 1

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Votes: 1

The only way to revive Temple worship is through repentance. The men of Judah must give up their idolatry and turn their hearts back to God." Votes: 1

Let your repentance salt my shoe leather," I said presently, "and then, as I lately sheathed my blade of anger, so sheath you my blade of love." Votes: 1

You are my life, my very essence,You are the air that I breathe,You are the key to my repentanceWhich I confess is not a breeze!" Votes: 1

True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything"." Votes: 1

Think of the repentance that could take place with lives changed, marriages preserved, and homes strengthened, if pride did not keep us from confessing our sins and forsaking them." Votes: 1

Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence. Votes: 1

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety." Votes: 1

J. I. Packer has written, "The repentance that Christ requires of His people consists in a settled refusal to set any limit to the claims which He may make on their lives."17" Votes: 1

As to remedying our personal mistakes, we face no hindering traffic jams on the road of repentance. It is a toll road, not a freeway, and applying Christ's Atonement will speed us along." Votes: 1

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear." Votes: 1

And if only fate would have sent him repentance - burning repentance that would have torn his heart and robbed him of sleep, that repentance, the awful agony of which brings visions of hanging and drowning!" Votes: 1

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates." Votes: 1

There is no Christianity unless first there is repentance. And it is not just, "Well, I am guilty." It is not just a conviction. It is a conviction plus a desire to turn away from those things." Votes: 1

My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth." Votes: 1

Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort." Votes: 1

God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent. (The Count of Monte Cristo)" Votes: 1

The call of repentance is for the righteous and the unrighteous, the godly and the ungodly alike. If the righteous had been the lights they were called to be, the nation would never have fallen as it did." Votes: 1

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation." Votes: 1

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation. Votes: 1

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance." Votes: 1

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable." Votes: 1

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed." Votes: 1

At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss." Votes: 1

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life. Votes: 1

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life." Votes: 1

If we rebuke our heart by a calm, mild remonstrance, with more compassion for it than passion against it and encourage it to make amendment, then repentance conceived in this way will sink far deeper and penetrate more effectually than fretful, angry, stormy repentance." Votes: 1

But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out." Votes: 1

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart." Votes: 1

The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is obtained only upon condition of faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion, and the laying on of hands by authorized servants endowed with the Melchizedek Priesthood. Votes: 1

The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Votes: 1

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment." Votes: 1

Repentance must dig the foundations, but holiness shall erect the structure, and bring forth the top-stone. Repentance is the clearing away of the rubbish of the past temple of sin; holiness builds the new temple which the Lord our God shall inherit. Repentance and desires after holiness never can be separated." Votes: 1

The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life. Votes: 1

Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness. Votes: 1

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin." Votes: 1

The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty." Votes: 1

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant." Votes: 1

The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things. Votes: 1

Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernably in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul, and to cut the throat of the soul." Votes: 1

As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction." Votes: 1

God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement." Votes: 1

Love always precedes repentance. Divine love is a catalyst for our turning, our healing. Where fear & threat may gain our compliance, love captures our heart. It changes the heavy burden of the "have-to's" of imposed obedience to the "get-to's", a joyful response to the genuine love of God. It is in the security of this love we find Sabbath (rest)." Votes: 1

Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to be got over as fast as possible! No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself. God's little children repent, and so do the young men and the fathers. Repentance is the inseparable companion of faith." Votes: 1

True repentance also involves reform. Votes: 0

True repentance always involves reform. Votes: 0

Confession without repentance is just bragging. Votes: 0

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance. Votes: 0

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. Votes: 0

True repentance does not permit repetition. Votes: 0

There's no repentance in the grave. Votes: 0

But with morning cool repentance came. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is as wide as repentance. Votes: 0

The dream is short, repentance long. Votes: 0

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. Votes: 0

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance. Votes: 0

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long. Votes: 0

Let us beware of repentance without evidence. Votes: 0

A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind Votes: 0

America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance! Votes: 0

Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance. Votes: 0

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. Votes: 0

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends. Votes: 0

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause Votes: 0

What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance. Votes: 0

...God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance... Votes: 0

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance Votes: 0

To do so no more is the truest repentance. Votes: 0

You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance. Votes: 0

Joy is only as satisfying as repentance is deep. Votes: 0

All of a Christian's life is one of repentance. Votes: 0

Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance. Votes: 0

Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce. Votes: 0

Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful. Votes: 0

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone. Votes: 0

There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance. Votes: 0

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance. Votes: 0

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; Votes: 0

Humility and repentance are necessary to restore your relationship with God. Votes: 0

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance. Votes: 0

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance. Votes: 0

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy. Votes: 0

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment. Votes: 0

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible. Votes: 0

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer. Votes: 0

The depth of our repentance will determine the depth of our revival. Votes: 0

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. Votes: 0

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas. Votes: 0

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell. Votes: 0

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it. Votes: 0

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless. Votes: 0

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true. Votes: 0

Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance. Votes: 0

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance. Votes: 0

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another. Votes: 0

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace. Votes: 0

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior. Votes: 0

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance. Votes: 0

Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge. Votes: 0

Only through repentance do we gain access to the atoning grace of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance. Votes: 0

Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness. Votes: 0

He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent. Votes: 0

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart." Votes: 0

Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness. Votes: 0

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame. Votes: 0

True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong. Votes: 0

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance. Votes: 0

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel. Votes: 0

If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance. Votes: 0

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation. Votes: 0

Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life. Votes: 0

You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent! Votes: 0

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. Votes: 0

Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb. Votes: 0

Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them. Votes: 0

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame Votes: 0

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody. Votes: 0

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future. Votes: 0

O my Saviour, who am I, that Thou shouldst have so long awaited my repentance! Votes: 0

If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors. Votes: 0

If Shaytan(Demon) defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds Votes: 0

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance. Votes: 0

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything. Votes: 0

The depth of revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance. Votes: 0

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. Votes: 0

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash. Votes: 0

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits. Votes: 0

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance. Votes: 0

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish. Votes: 0

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians. Votes: 0

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. Votes: 0

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance, Votes: 0

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell Votes: 0

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance. Votes: 0

In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance. Votes: 0

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative. Votes: 0

One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin. Votes: 0

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time. Votes: 0

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth. Votes: 0

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness. Votes: 0

Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance. Votes: 0

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance. Votes: 0

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power? Votes: 0

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins Votes: 0

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets. Votes: 0

All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things. Votes: 0

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance. Votes: 0

Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians. Votes: 0

Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance. Votes: 0

Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance. Votes: 0

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician. Votes: 0

Enthusiasm, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Votes: 0

Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins. Votes: 0

Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow. Votes: 0

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him. Votes: 0

God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. It's all about love! Votes: 0

It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare. Votes: 0

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished. Votes: 0

It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name. Votes: 0

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. Votes: 0

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance. Votes: 0

Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression. Votes: 0

The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength. Votes: 0

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance! Votes: 0

If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance. Votes: 0

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness. Votes: 0

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans... Votes: 0

When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined. Votes: 0

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end. Votes: 0

Rationalization for bad choices will not be effective, but repentance will. Those who repent will be particularly blessed by the Atonement. Votes: 0

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation. Votes: 0

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress. Votes: 0

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. Votes: 0

The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance! Votes: 0

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair. Votes: 0

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance. Votes: 0

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. Votes: 0

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on. Votes: 0

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution. Votes: 0

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind. Votes: 0

No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul. Votes: 0

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. Votes: 0

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it. Votes: 0

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it. Votes: 0

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty. Votes: 0

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone. Votes: 0

There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell. Votes: 0

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people. Votes: 0

The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance. Votes: 0

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance. Votes: 0

Prayer is the burden of revival; repentance is the breakthrough of revival; evangelism is the blessing of revival; holiness is the bounty of revival. Votes: 0

Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God. Votes: 0

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle. Votes: 0

You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter. Votes: 0

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better. Votes: 0

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God. Votes: 0

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard. Votes: 0

There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life. Votes: 0

If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder. Votes: 0

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love. Votes: 0

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance. Votes: 0

God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background. Votes: 0

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion. Votes: 0

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin. Votes: 0

Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker. Votes: 0

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance. Votes: 0

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again. Votes: 0

True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything". Votes: 0

Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance. Votes: 0

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour. Votes: 0

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people. Votes: 0

If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall. Votes: 0

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance. Votes: 0

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance. Votes: 0

Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it. Votes: 0

When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it. Votes: 0

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself. Votes: 0

Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves . . . . are components of the gospel, not the workings or fruits of the law. Votes: 0

We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then. Votes: 0

Peace is the precious fruit of a righteous life. It is possible because of the Atonement of the Savior. It is earned through full repentance, for that leads to refreshing forgiveness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume. Votes: 0

Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us. Votes: 0

Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility. Votes: 0

Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness. Votes: 0

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. Votes: 0

Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance. Votes: 0

Men are born to sin"What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition. Votes: 0

For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion. Votes: 0

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally. Votes: 0

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution. Votes: 0

To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance. Votes: 0

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded. Votes: 0

It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance. Votes: 0

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy. Votes: 0

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance. Votes: 0

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing. Votes: 0

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear. Votes: 0

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear. Votes: 0

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance. Votes: 0

Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction. Votes: 0