Top 1200 Repentance And Forgiveness Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being. Some recent studies show that people who are taught to forgive become 'less angry, more hopeful, less depressed, less anxious and less stressed,' which leads to greater physical well-being. Another of these studies concludes 'that forgiveness ... is a liberating gift [that] people can give to themselves.'

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.

One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.

If Shaytan(Demon) defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds

There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.

It is very, very rare where a slight that turns into a grudge that is in need of forgiveness is only about one of the parties. In most of our day-to-day situations - with colleagues at work, with your partner, with your children, with your friends - most of the time, if you really got down with each other and put aside your pride and your defensiveness and you had those hard conversations, you'd find a place where both people had something to ask for forgiveness from the other and to forgive the other.

Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till the next time, forgive but give no more chances it’s a whole new game if there is another incident. You can give one more chance, give several more chances, give many chances, give chances only if. You can forgive part, all, or half of the offense. You can devise a blanket of forgiveness. You decide

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.

Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.

Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence.

It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

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.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (racism, ethnic hatred) spreads through society like an airborne disease, one cough infects a whole busload. When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from rancid discrimination, from denial of human rights, if our hearts aren't changed.

Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.

Let us go back to the Lord. The Lord never tires of forgiving: never! It is we who tire of asking his forgiveness. Let us ask for the grace not to tire of asking forgiveness, because he never tires of forgiving.

The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.

As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.

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.

Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment be severe, let it be bitter, nay let it be lasting, but let it at length have an end.

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

Many years ago I was driven to the conclusion that the two major causes of most emotional problems among evangelical Christians are these: the failure to understand, receive, and live into God's unconditional grace and forgiveness; and the failure to give out that unconditional love, forgiveness, and grace to other peopleWe read, we hear, we believe a good theology of grace. But that's not the way we live. The good news of the Gospel of grace has not penetrated the level of our emotions.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.

Do we refuse to forgive? God, too, will refuse to forgive us. As we treat our neighbors, so also does God treat us. The forgiveness or unforgiveness of your sins, then, and hence also your salvation or destruction, depend on you yourself. For without forgiveness of sins there is no salvation. You can see for yourself how serious it is.

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.

All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.

Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.

Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.

Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.

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.

In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.