Quotes About Repentance And Forgiveness

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

Gordon B. Hinckley

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

Jose Bergamin

#3. Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to correct and overcome the consequences of sin. The gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides us at all times and at all places with the blessings of repentance and forgiveness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

J. Golden Kimball

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

Billy Graham

#6. 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

#7. This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the contrary, God's mercy is a great gift of grace precisely because sins are sins and they call for repentance and forgiveness.

Thomas J. Paprocki

#8. A delicate balance is required: keep the penitent tautly close to the point of recognizing sin, and then allow the relief of that pressure to flow through forgiveness. Confession increases this tautness, only to clear the path for release.

Thomas C. Oden

#9. When Jesus stepped into the waters of the Jordan and was baptized by John the Baptist, he did so not because he was in need of repentance, or conversion: he did it to be among people who need forgiveness, among us sinners, and to take upon himself the burden of our sins.

Pope Francis

#10. The fall of the nation, there is no;
Faithfulness,
Kindness and
Knowledge of God in your sacred land.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Howard W. Hunter

#12. Lo, God! I am Thy handiwork. I have sinned and have done great evil, yet I am still Thy handiwork, who hath made me what I am. So, though I may not undo that which I have done, yet I may, with Thy aid, do better hereafter than I have done heretofore.

Howard Pyle

#13. Welcome the righteous,
avoid the wicked,
and yet open both arms to the repentant.
Whoever receives them receives God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. What we have to go through to commit sin distances us from God - we change in the very act of rebellion - and there is no guarantee we will ever come back. You ask me about forgiveness now, but will you even want it later, especially if it involves repentance?

Philip Yancey

#15. Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.

Spencer W. Kimball

#16. Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

Ted Chiang

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God's forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.

Franklin Graham

#20. Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. 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.

Boyd K. Packer

#22. The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith - and He will forgive.

Billy Graham

#23. 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!

Billy Graham

#24. 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.

James E. Faust

#25. But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith have committed the keeping of their souls to Him.He pleads their cause, and by the mighty arguments of Calvary vanquishes their accuser.

Ellen G. White

#26. 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

#27. 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.

Dan B. Allender

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

Monica Johnson

#29. God is merciful to all who repent and turn to Him.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. Is the any grace like go and sin no more?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.

John The Baptist

#32. 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.

Paul David Tripp

#33. The chief danger of the 20th century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

William Booth

#34. The Lord is calling us to turn from evil. And return to Him in repentance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. Don't harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Ezra Taft Benson

#37. Keeping the gospel in focus, you see, is more than helping our children know forgiveness of sin through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. In the gospel there is the promise of internal transformation and empowerment.

Tedd Tripp

#38. Holiness does not consist in never having erred or sinned. Holiness increases the capacity for conversion, for repentance, for willingness to start again and, especially, for reconciliation and forgiveness.

Pope Benedict XVI

#39. Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.

Criss Jami

#40. The conscience is the tool that God the Holy Spirit uses to convict us, bring us to repentance, and to receive the healing of forgiveness that flows from the gospel.

R.C. Sproul

#41. 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.

Desmond Tutu

#42. All this teaching that repentance does not matter, and that it does not matter whether you have a sense of sin, and whether you realize your need of forgiveness, and that all you have to do is to 'Come to Jesus as you are' is utterly unscriptural. Indeed it is illogical.

Martin Lloyd-Jones

#43. Repent, return and be restored by Jesus Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#44. 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.

#45. Repentance is shockingly beautiful when we see it not as "I sinned again, I need to repent," but as "I sinned against my God again, but He is calling me back so He can lavish me with His love and forgiveness.

James MacDonald