Top 55 Repent Sin Quotes
#1. bad biblical interpretation proceeds not just from ignorance but from sin.36 Therefore, part of the hermeneutical challenge to contemporary Christians is to repent of our millennia-long hardness of heart.
Ellen F. Davis
#3. 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
#4. It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.
Josh Billings
#5. If one of you has seriously sinned, repent - now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.
Richard G. Scott
#7. Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It's a dead language. The thing is, you can't un-sin. You can only repent.
Steven Furtick
#8. Truly, these times of ignorance God overlook, but now he commanded all men everywhere to repent." Acts 17: 30
Lailah Gifty Akita
#9. Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. 'Odd, isn't it,' he said, 'that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?
G.K. Chesterton
#10. There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than whether they repent of sin, believe on Christ and live holy lives.
J.C. Ryle
#11. Christian, that sin which first came between you and God is bad, but that is not the last step in the progress of sin. The most guilty part in this quadruple sin is to hide it, deny it, ignore it, refust to confess it, refuse to repent of it!
John R. Rice
#12. Before asking God's forgiveness there is something important you must do. You must repent, that is, turn from the behavior and lifestyle that [leads to sin].
Billy Graham
#13. The lesson of Left Behind is a warning to repent the sin of critical thinking, which the fundamentalist, eager for people to embrace the Gospel of irrational nonsense, equates with intellectual pride.
Robert M. Price
#14. To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.
Thomas Brooks
#15. If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.
Johnny Hunt
#16. Repent means to renounce sin ... and by God's grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.
Billy Graham
#17. It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Muriel Spark
#19. One way to handle the discrepancy between our beliefs and our sinful inclinations is to repent, pray for grace and forgiveness, and struggle on in the belief that God will forge a greater harmony for us out of our battle with sin. That is the Christian approach. ~ p.75
William Kilpatrick
#20. The Prodigal Son didn't repent of his sin because he got tired of living like and with the pigs. He repented because God gave him eyes to see.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#21. It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
Oscar Wilde
#22. Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God's people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.
Henry Blackaby
#23. One can repent of a sin and have done with it; but the wages of foolishness is the eternal recalling of it.
Jetta Carleton
#24. The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.
Timothy Keller
#25. The human race is called on throughout the Bible to repent of sin and return to God.
Billy Graham
#26. 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
#27. Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.
Rob Bell
#28. By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.
C.S. Lewis
#29. Jesus, I know I am a sinner. I want to repent of my sins and turn and follow You. I believe You died for my sins and rose again victorious over the power of sin and death, and I want to accept You as my personal Savior. Come into my life, Lord Jesus, and help me obey You from this day forward. Amen.
Elizabeth George
#30. It is found in understanding that the only people who are doing God's will are those who have repented and been born again. God's grace is not a license to sin, but a temporary opportunity to repent and receive forgiveness.
David Servant
#31. You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.
Ernest Hemingway,
#32. Repentance means to have a hearty, thorough, change of mind and it includes the idea of rejecting and renouncing the sinful, filthy lifestyle you've been living. And for the most part, fags cannot repent because they're proud of their sin.
Fred Phelps
#34. We can be convicted of sin - we can pray and confess our sin - we can repent - but the real test is our willingness to obey.
Billy Graham
#35. It is entirely possible to be deeply sorry because of the devastation which sin has wrought in our lives - and yet not repent.
Billy Graham
#36. It would be the greatest tragedy if I didn't tell you that unless you repent of your sins and receive Christ as your Savior, you are going to be lost.
Billy Graham
#37. All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.
Marilyn Manson
#38. Don't punish people who repent; heal them. I don't believe that private sin requires public rebuke or removal from office if repentance is taking place. However, when no evidence of true repentance exists, then discipline is in order.
Ted Haggard
#39. [Mankind has] allowed worldly desires and pleasures to fill the heart and mind. Whatever the sin, we need to repent and turn to Jesus Christ in faith for forgiveness and new life.
Billy Graham
#41. We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the Devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experienced it can appreciate it.
Francis Of Assisi
#42. There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.
Terri Blackstock
#44. 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
#46. After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.
C.S. Lewis
#47. If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.
William Wallace
#48. Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.
Richard Baxter
#49. These friends represent an oversimplified "orthodoxy," based on a misreading of the wisdom tradition to the effect that all troubles are punishments for wrongdoing. Their "comfort" consists largely of applying this message to Job, urging him to identify his sin and repent of it.
Anonymous
#51. We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#52. The difference between us and the one being disciplined by the church is not that we're not all sinners...but that we repent of our sin and he doesn't...we take God's side against our own sin
John Kent Folmar
#53. Repent when you fail, and immediately seek God's forgiveness and restoration. Sin breaks our fellowship with God.
Billy Graham
#54. Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#55. With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.
Henry B. Eyring
