Top 334 Repent Quotes & Sayings

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

Whichever you do, you will repent it.

When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it.

Marry in haste, repent in leisure.

Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

I am a brat by nature and I don't repent what I do.

Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.

We call men to repent and believe. And if they repent and believe, truly in that moment they are saved in that moment. But the evidence is more than just the sincerity of a prayer. It is a continuation of the working of God in their life through sanctification.

Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.

Repent or be damned! If you have already repented, please disregard this notice.

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.

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

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

I won't go to Hell for swearing because I repent too damn fast!

The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you've been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God.

In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God's grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

The Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will repent of the evil that I intended to do to it. And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will repent of the good which I had intended to do to it.

Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.

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.

We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.

If anyone stumbles then he must repent. If anyone errs then he must repent. And no one must insist on (the path of) destruction. If anyone insists on tyranny then he is far away from the path

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.

He that does not repent, sins again.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

I don't want to say yes to a project in hurry and repent later.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

I'll repent one day, just not right now.

Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.

I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.

The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’

When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation.

Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall

Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.

Do you realize how marvelous it is that you can call upon the Atonement? The Lord effected the Atonement for our sakes. And there isn’t anything that you can’t repent from and that you can’t be rescued from if you will repent and be determined to make the decision.

I've heard pro-lifers yell at abortion clinic workers that they should 'Repent!' Repent of what? They don't see what they are doing as something that needs to be repented of. Why? Because they are blinded. Do you think yelling at them will remove that blindness? Not likely.

Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

If I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

One can repent even of having repented.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past

'If he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I repent; you shall forgive him' (Lk. 17:4). As the Searcher of hearts, the Lord knows that men are liable to very frequent trespass, and that, having fallen, they often rise up again; therefore He has given us the commandment to frequently forgive trespasses, and He Himself is the first to fulfill His holy word. As soon as you say from your whole heart, 'I repent,' you will be immediately forgiven.

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.