Top 100 Sin Repentance Quotes
#1. 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
#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. Likewise, we continue to follow Jesus as we struggle with sin. Repentance ushers us into a life of greater struggle, not out of one.
J.D. Greear
#4. No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot
#6. Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause
Ibn Taymiyyah
#7. True repentance is to cease from sin.
Ambrose
#9. Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
Boyd K. Packer
#10. Repentance is not merely turning away from your sin but turning to the Lamb who takes away your sin. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". 1 John 1:29
John Paul Warren
#11. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
Michel De Montaigne
#12. The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.
Emile Zola
#13. Remorse (I did it) is an easy, passive, human reaction, there is no value in it and it changes nothing. Repentance (I will not do it again) is the difficult call to action in a redeemed heart. It has an eternal impact and it can change everything.
William Branks
#14. 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
#15. True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. You and I, God's ambassadors, are called to sound the warning, to call sinners to repentance, to point the way to peace with God and the hope that is in Christ.
Billy Graham
#18. Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.
J.I. Packer
#20. Repentance, turning from sin, and degrees of conviction of sin do not constitute the grounds on which Christ is offered to us. They may constitute ways in which the Spirit works as the gospel makes its impact on us. But they never form the warrant for repentance and faith.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#21. Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.
Richard Sibbes
#22. Sin is a power; wherever it is given room, it will grow in strength, and it will take you where you do not want to go.
Colin S. Smith
#23. Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
Timothy Keller
#24. 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
#25. Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.
George Sand
#26. Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.
Charles Spurgeon
#27. Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker.
Joseph Hertz
#28. Don't harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#29. Either sin must drown in the tears of repentance - or the soul must burn in hell.
Thomas Watson
#30. You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance.
Henry R Brandt
#31. Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.
Criss Jami
#32. So two things, on our part, are required to receive God's saving grace: repentance from sin and faith in God Who saves us (by grace, in Christ). Both are free choices, and both are necessary to allow grace to enter our souls.
Peter Kreeft
#33. Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.
Orville Dewey
#34. The fallacy here? The subtle movement from seeing forsaking sin as the fruit of grace that is rooted in election, to making the forsaking of sin the necessary precursor for experiencing that grace. Repentance, which is the fruit of grace, thus becomes a qualification for grace. This
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#35. To be Christians indeed, is to have our hearts changed by God's Holy Spirit, so as to have His love shed abroad there where once was only hatred and indifference; to have repentance where there was once no sense of sin; and to have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ where at one time was unbelief.
George E. Sargent
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins
Augustus Hopkins Strong
#39. His conversion to Christianity seems to have come about largely by thinking...It did not come by sudden intuition, or overwhelming vision, or even by the more usual path of conviction of sin calling for repentance and atonement.
Jocelyn Gibb
#40. It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors
Arthur W. Pink
#43. There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and other people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends.
Timothy Keller
#44. Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.
Charles Caleb Colton
#45. Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it.
D.R. Silva
#47. 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
#49. We are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that we are often blind to our sinfulness, and that we need the enlightening power of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.
Jerry Bridges
#50. The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!
Saib Tabrizi
#51. Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
Lew Wallace
#52. The Lord will deliver us from every chain of sin, slavery and bondage.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#53. Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
Honore De Balzac
#54. If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#55. If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.
Vavasor Powell
#56. If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.
J.C. Ryle
#57. All the pleasure of sin cannot be compared to the satisfaction with sweetness of life in the spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#58. REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
Ambrose Bierce
#60. Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repentance and revival.
Billy Graham
#62. Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled "repentance." If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
Boyd K. Packer
#63. 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
#64. Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.
Jen Pollock Michel
#66. A transformed life is the greatest of all miracles. Every time a person is "born again" by repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ, the miracle of regeneration is performed.
Billy Graham
#67. When true repentance occurs and lifestyles change, God can do marvelous works of restoration. Denying sin, however is not a characteristic of a repentant heart.
Lois Mowday Rabey
#68. True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God's love.
William Mackergo Taylor
#69. To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
Jose Bergamin
#70. 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
#71. A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.
Monica Johnson
#73. 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
#74. Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.
Mark Driscoll
#75. One of the big lies with sin is that we are already waist-deep and might as well just plunge in.
Matt Chandler
#76. Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.
Jerry Bridges
#77. 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
#79. 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
#80. One very difficult aspect of sin is that my sin never feels like sin to me. My sin feels like life to me, plain and simple. My heart is an idol factory, and my mind is an excuse-making factory.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#81. True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans ...
Thomas Brooks
#82. A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#83. 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
#84. One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins where the raw anguish of conscience is rubbing against the primordial awareness of God's holiness.
Thomas C. Oden
#85. Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.
Monica Johnson
#86. 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
#87. Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
#88. A vision of God high and lifted up reveals to me my sin and increases my love for him. Grief and love lead to genuine repentance, and I begin to be conformed to the image of the One I behold.
Jen Wilkin
#89. Perpetually is the servant either the recipient of a blessing from Allaah, in which case he is need of gratitude; or he is the perpetrator of sin, in which case he is in need of repentance; he is always moving from one blessing to another and is always is in need of repentance.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#90. 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
#91. Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
Philip Yancey
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles ...
John Geddes
#95. 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
#97. 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
#98. Truly, these times of ignorance God overlook, but now he commanded all men everywhere to repent." Acts 17: 30
Lailah Gifty Akita
#99. 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
#100. 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
