Repentance Quotes

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.

God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance.

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

Repentance is for little children.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentance—that is, deep, heart‐changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of life—takes place in the one being rebuked. Nor is reconciliation to be extended to someone who has not repented.

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

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

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

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

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

All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.

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

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

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

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

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

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

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

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

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

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

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

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

To do so no more is the truest repentance.

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

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

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

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.

There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.

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.

True repentance is to cease from sin.

There's no repentance in the grave.

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

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

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.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

True repentance does not permit repetition.

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

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

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

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

True repentance also involves reform.

Bad men are full of repentance.