Top 1200 Repentance And Forgiveness Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the best practice may be to end our connection, to never speak to or be with a harmful person again. Sometimes in the process of forgiveness a person who hurts or betrayed us may wish to make amends, but even this does not require us to put ourselves in the way of further harm.

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

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

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.

Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.

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

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you.

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.

Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

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

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

Only through repentance do we gain access to the atoning grace of Jesus Christ.

Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave washing away a message in the sand. Second, forgiveness involves caring for the offending person because most people who offend us have something in their own heart that needs healing. When we forgive others, they are released from our anger and we are healed by God.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!

Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.

O my Saviour, who am I, that Thou shouldst have so long awaited my repentance!

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and most concerns dying men. Indeed, what is necessary every hour of our life is necessary in the hour of death too, and as long as one lives he will have need of repentance, and therefore it is necessary in the hour of death too; but he who hath constantly exercised himself in it in his health and vigor, will do it with less pain in his sickness and weakness; and he who hath practiced it all his life, will do it with more ease and less perplexity in the hour of his death.

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

As you consider your own life, are there things that you need to change? Have you made mistakes that still need to be corrected? If you are suffering from feelings of guilt or remorse, bitterness or anger, or loss of faith, I invite you to seek relief. Repent and forsake your sins. Then, in prayer, ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.