Top 540 Repentance Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. It's all about love!

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong.

Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.

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.

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

I preach salvation by grace through faith alone. I preach for the repentance of sin.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

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.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

The truth is that we all need repentance. If we are capable of reason and past the age of eight, we all need the cleansing that comes through applying the full effects of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith have committed the keeping of their souls to Him.He pleads their cause, and by the mighty arguments of Calvary vanquishes their accuser.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful.

If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

The depth of revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance.

We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.

God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

The Atonement of Jesus Christ is powerful enough to reach out and cleanse you if you are repentant and give up your sinful behavior, but I urge you not to embark on that path because repentance is not easy.

Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.

As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so.

Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.

No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

Justice is only achieved in beautiful fullness when the oppressed has been elevated back to their rightful place, and when those who were guilty of the oppressing have experienced repentance, healing, and restoration as well.--justice is only achieved in beautiful fullness when the oppressed has been elevated back to their rightful place, and when those who were guilty of the oppressing have experienced repentance, healing, and restoration as well.

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.