Top 38 Quotes About Repenting
#1. Our time on earth is not well spent by counting rewards before God has given them to us, but rather, by looking for our faults and repenting of them
Dan Schilling
#2. When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.
John Ortberg
#3. Like David we have a number of self-destructive options we use to avoid repenting and admitting sin. I'll list them and let you come up with personal examples for each: deny, avoid, blame shift, rationalize, and give excuses. If you can't think of how you've used these, you may be stuck in denial!
James MacDonald
#4. Faith and repentance are the same; they are not two separate decisions. One cannot trust Christ as Savior without repenting or changing his mind. The very fact that he trusts Christ for salvation shows that he has changed his mind regarding sin, salvation, and God.
Curtis Hutson
#5. True repentance is a turning from sin ... Humanly speaking, it is our small part in the plan of salvation. Our part is repenting. God will do the converting, the transforming, and the forgiving.
Billy Graham
#6. I bet I've led a more virtuous life than you."
"First, darlin', that's not saying much. Second, getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all."
-Ella & Jack
Lisa Kleypas
#7. It's not a sin! Caring for your friends feelings is not a sin! If you disappear, then Aries, myself, and everyone here will be filled with sadness! You won't be repenting your sin that way!
Hiro Mashima
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. You thank God [for your salvation] because you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.
J.I. Packer
#11. Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.
Lisa Kleypas
#12. Repenting is a gift God gives us for our own sake, not his.
John Ortberg
#13. The only thing that is holding us back from repenting is ourselves. There isn't any 'buts' actually.
Norhafsah Hamid
#14. Repenting of our sin is never despairing of our sin; it is always done in hope.
John Ortberg
#15. 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
#16. The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.
Stephen Baldwin
#17. Remember also, the present is your only time to be saved. There is no believing, no repenting, no conversion in the grave
no minister will speak to you there. This is the time of conversion.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#18. When we strive to keep the commandments of God, repenting of our sins and promising our best efforts to follow the Savior, we begin to grow in confidence that through the Atonement everything will be all right.
Wilford W. Andersen
#19. By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.
C.S. Lewis
#20. How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.
Neal A. Maxwell
#21. Let your youth have free reign. It won't come again, so be bold, and no repenting.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#22. Repenting and coming unto Christ through the covenants and ordinances of salvation are prerequisite to and a preparation for being sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost and standing spotless before God at the last day.
David A. Bednar
#23. The evidence that you truly repented long ago when you said you did is because you're still repenting now and even to a greater degree. The evidence that you believed a long time ago is that you're still believing now and ever more believing in greater and greater degrees.
Paul Washer
#24. I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.
Laurence Sterne
#25. I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame ...
Dodie Smith
#26. He would rather see you living a life that was honoring to Him, rather than making mistakes and repenting of them repeatedly.
Tim Baker
#27. This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.
Jim Wallis
#28. Because of our fallen natures, we expect that we will be repenting of sin until glory. But repentance is not simply proof of failure. It is, more importantly, a sign of God's hand upon us. It is a conversion proof, as only a saved person can repent of sin.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#29. Overcomers are not perfect. They fail just like the rest of us, but they keep on getting up, keep on repenting, and keep on being willing to surrender themselves to Christ and letting Him, who is the only perfect One, work through them.
Nancy Missler
#30. We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion for the remission of sins by one having priesthood authority.
David A. Bednar
#31. To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#32. Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.
Ellen G. White
#33. I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.
Nate Lowman
#36. How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.
John Hagee
#37. His eyes say quite plainly that he once trusted someone, that he has been repenting it for longer than you or I have been alive, and that he will never take the chance again.
Gene Wolfe
#38. If you do bad stuff and don't repent, you go to hell," Orc said, like he was begging for a refutation.
"Yeah, well, you know what? If Howard's in hell, I guess we can all have a big get-together soon enough. a
Michael Grant
