Top 70 Quotes About Christian Repentance
#2. Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.
Jim George
#3. Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don't feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they're stuck right where they started: Guilty.
Geoffrey Wood
#4. They view repentance as the thing they have to do in order to earn forgiveness, therefore the more difficult they make it, the more credit they tally up.
Geoffrey Wood
#5. Change is inevitable! Repentance is the Christian constant!
Gary Rohrmayer
#6. True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.
Martin Luther
#9. 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.
Charles Spurgeon
#10. 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.
George MacDonald
#11. 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.
John Owen
#12. Don't harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.
Criss Jami
#14. Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
Vance Havner
#15. Make them imagine repentance more like an appearance in court before a cranky old judge, less like a child knocking on his father's study door to have a chat.
Geoffrey Wood
#18. Christ's atonement fully satisfied the demands of God's righteousness, so forgiveness and mercy are guaranteed to those who receive Christ in humble, repentant faith.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#19. So in case someone left it out or forgot to mention it when they explained what it meant to be a Christian, let me be clear: There is no forgiveness without repentance. There is no salvation without surrender. There is no life without death. There is no believing without committing.
Kyle Idleman
#21. The Lord will deliver us from every chain of sin, slavery and bondage.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#23. We are approaching again the Great Lent - the time of repentance, the time of our reconciliation with God. Repentance is the beginning and also the condition of a truly Christian life.
Alexander Schmemann
#24. All the pleasure of sin cannot be compared to the satisfaction with sweetness of life in the spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#25. Repentance restores your relationship with God.
Jim George
#27. Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repentance and revival.
Billy Graham
#31. God is Holy.
God is pure.
God is faithful.
God is gracious.
God is merciful.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#33. The saints were people like all of us. Many of them came out of great sins, but by repentance they attained the Kingdom of Heaven. And everyone who comes there comes through repentance, which the merciful Lord has given us through His sufferings.
Silouan The Athonite
#35. 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.
Kevin DeYoung
#38. The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.
Charles Spurgeon
#40. It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn't mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude.
Geoffrey Wood
#41. This idea is a great idea, and a Christian idea could not have found fuller expression. Repentance can go no further than the astonishing heroic deed that you have contemplated, if only ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#42. Humility and repentance are necessary to restore your relationship with God.
Jim George
#44. Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.
J.I. Packer
#46. 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.
John Bunyan
#47. Most Christians never associate joy with repentance. But repentance is actually the mother of all joy in Jesus. Without it, there can be no joy. Yet, any believer who walks in repentance will be flooded with the joy of the Lord.
David Wilkerson
#48. Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.
R.C. Sproul
#49. Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.
Joseph Addison
#50. 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.
Saint John Chrysostom
#51. If ours souls are thirsty, we can draw freely, livng water from the well of salvation.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#53. Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church, or receiving a sacrament. It is being brought to our knees by the conviction of God the Holy Spirit.
R.C. Sproul
#54. Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.
Johnny Hunt
#57. Divine power transforms us, to be the better person, we ought to be.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#58. Remember, this type doesn't really believe He'll forgive them, by repenting they are trying to earn what they do not think, in any case, He will pay.
Geoffrey Wood
#59. Just as you are, come to Christ Jesus, He will change you, to what you ought to be.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. This is the worst thing about poisons and deadly sins - that we enjoy them.
R.W. Schmidt
#64. Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.
LeCrae
#65. For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#67. If your repentance and God's forgiveness of your sin does not lead to total surrender to God, you should wonder if you truly repented.
Gail Davis
#68. Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."
Timothy Keller
#69. No matter what kind of sin you have committed, there is always forgiveness. You must repent and seek forgiveness. You can walk in the new life and light.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#70. Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.
Abraham Lincoln
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