Repentance Quotes

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance.

Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.

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

Repentance is for little children.

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.

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

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

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

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

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentance—that is, deep, heart‐changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of life—takes place in the one being rebuked. Nor is reconciliation to be extended to someone who has not repented.

Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.

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

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

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

If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.

All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.

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

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

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

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

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