Top 100 Quotes About Repentance
#1. Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell
Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell
Richard Barnfield
#2. When we're tempted to give up, we must remember God is long-suffering, change is a process, and repentance is a pattern in our lives.
Brad Wilcox
#3. Allah wanted the people who have made sins to turn from their sins and make up for them in order to be near to Allah through gaining His satisfaction, for He has promised to accept their repentance and forgive the sinner
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#4. Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Beverly Sills
#5. 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.
Charles R. Swindoll
#6. Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.
Boyd K. Packer
#7. Therefore if we lack the feeling of repentance but nevertheless want to repent; if we choose repentance with the will; we are then repenting, since repentance is that choice of the will.
Peter Kreeft
#8. 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.
J.D. Greear
#9. Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.
R.C. Sproul
#10. 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.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#11. 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.
Ogden Nash
#12. Repentance is the process of discovering what God says is the truth and aligning your faith with His.
Phil Drysdale
#14. 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.
D. Todd Christofferson
#15. I have been preaching repentance for seventy years; there are thousands of ministers of the Gospel all over this planet preaching repentance this very hour ... and most of the time the world has laughed in the face of the King of kings.
Billy Graham
#16. I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.
Aulus Gellius
#17. May we all storm the gates of heaven for the souls of the anguished, that in their greatest time of need they will hear the gentle voice of God's Spirit calling them to repentance.
Billy Graham
#18. The Recovered Thing is not quite the same as the Thing-never-lost. It is often more precious. As Grace, recovered by repentance, is not the same as primitive Innocence, but is not necessarily a poorer or worse state.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#19. 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.
Richard Salter Storrs
#20. 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.
Ellen G. White
#21. Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
Henry Ward Beecher
#22. The biblical summation of a saving response toward Christ is "repentance" and "belief" in the gospel.
J.D. Greear
#23. Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate sin itself.
William Barclay
#24. The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#25. The depth of revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance.
Frank Bartleman
#26. As long as he does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance.
C.S. Lewis
#27. Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
J.C. Ryle
#28. The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#30. 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
#31. The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
Benjamin Whichcote
#32. 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.
C.S. Lewis
#33. Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#34. 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.
Jon Voight
#35. It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth, i.e., living in the state of grace and in the presence of God, either in innocence or in sincere repentance.
Pope Pius XI
#36. The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt
#37. Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking his mercy but releasing our sin-sick sorrow to the Savior, who already rejoices to receive it.
Bryan Chapell
#38. 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.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
#39. Repentance prepares the way and makes the road of our hearts straight. Repentance builds up every low place and takes down every high place in our lives and church families. Repentance prepares us for His presence.
Tommy Tenney
#40. Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. 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.
Charles Grandison Finney
#42. 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.
Francis De Sales
#43. 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.
Joseph Joubert
#44. And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
Herman Melville
#45. 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
#46. It is not necessary that faith and repentance should always precede baptism. They are only required from those whose age makes them capable of both. It will be sufficient, then, if, after infants have grown up, they exhibit the power of their baptism. - John Calvin
John Calvin
#47. Repentance is a lifetime self-improvement.
Toba Beta
#48. 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.
Paul Washer
#49. 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.
Ezra Taft Benson
#50. God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
Anselm Of Canterbury
#51. 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
#52. 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.
Timothy Keller
#54. repentance, the response would be, "What do I have to repent for?" Everyone thought of
Svetlana Alexievich
#55. The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.
Howard W. Hunter
#56. Rationalization for bad choices will not be effective, but repentance will. Those
who repent will be particularly blessed by the Atonement.
Quentin L. Cook
#57. Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful.
John H. Groberg
#58. Humility and repentance are necessary to restore your relationship with God.
Jim George
#60. Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
Edmund Spenser
#61. What man leaves a girl he just dragged to a strip joint to get interrogated by my dad?" "A smart and still living one." There wasn't an ounce of repentance in his reply or grin. "You are a bad cat." "The baddest, honey. Feel free to punish me anytime.
Eve Langlais
#62. Self-pity leads to continuing to love the sin so it still has power over you, but hating yourself. Real repentance is when you say, "What has this sin done to God? What has it cost God? What does God feel about it?
Matt Papa
#63. Her father's marvelous gentleness was not because he lacked a keen enough perception of the faults and wretchedness of others; it came from his constant searching of his own heart before God, crushing it in repentance over his own failings. No,
Sigrid Undset
#64. 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
#65. If the love of God will not induce the rebel to yield the terrors of an eternal hell will not drive him to repentance,
Ellen G. White
#66. 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
#67. The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.
Paul Washer
#68. 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.
David A. Bednar
#69. Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.
Ovid
#70. 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
#71. If we are living in a calm aftermath that isn't accompanied by repentance, confession, and listening, then we might as well tie ourselves to the banisters and wait for the second wave of the storm to come back around.
David Hampton
#73. Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.
Thomas Watson
#74. 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.
Neal A. Maxwell
#75. 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.
Sharon Kay Penman
#76. The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.
Seneca The Younger
#77. A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#78. This emptiness - infinite darkness, infinite stillness, trapped alone with only his own mind - was what had always waited for him all his life, in spite of the blessings and benedictions of the Church, in spite of his sins and occasional semi-sincere repentance.
George R R Martin
#79. 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.
C.S. Lewis
#80. True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans ...
Thomas Brooks
#81. When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.
Martin Luther
#83. 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
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#84. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#85. When the doctrine of repentance is fully understood then it is seen that repentance is all that ever needs to be taught for repentance means not only to stop doing those things which are wrong but to start doing those things which are right.
Daniel H. Ludlow
#86. 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.
John Bunyan
#87. God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.
Alan Redpath
#88. Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.
Khurram Murad
#89. Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.
Jerry Bridges
#90. 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.
Matthew Henry
#91. It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] ... repentance cannot take place unless first there is a movement of the Holy Spirit in the heart and mind.
Billy Graham
#92. God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
Augustine Of Hippo
#93. He didn't make me pay all that I owed, but maybe I had to be willing to pay the full price. That's how repentance is different from regret.
Brent Weeks
#94. Erkel's fate will be lightened. From the moment of his arrest he either maintained silence or did his best to pervert the truth. Not one word of repentance has been extracted from him so far. And yet even in the most severe judges he has awakened a certain sympathy for himself
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#95. Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.
Charles Spurgeon
#97. To fill the hour - that is happiness, to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#98. 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.
J.I. Packer
#99. Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
Billy Graham
#100. True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.
J.C. Ryle
