Best 425 quotes in «repentance quotes» category

Forgiveness is as wide as repentance.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

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

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

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

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.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

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.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

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

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.

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.

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

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.

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

Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

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

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

no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.

Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.

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

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

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

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

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

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

True repentance also involves reform.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

True repentance always involves reform.

True repentance is to cease from sin.

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

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

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

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

...a guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul. Therefore, an age without a sense of sin, in which people are not even sorry for not being sorry for their sins, is in a serious predicament. Likewise an age with a Christianity so eager to forgive that it denies the need for forgiveness. For such an age, therefore, Lent can scarcely be too long!

All the pleasure of sin cannot be compared to the satisfaction with sweetness of life in the spirit.

All you need is grace.

A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so many great power pack man and women of God who lack wisdom.

A man needs his suffering to overcome sin.

A man with wisdom will always have a solution no matter how big his challenges may be. Wisdom makes you a problem solver.