repentance quotes

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

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

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Bad men are full of repentance.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.