Repentance Quotes

Confession is the first step to repentance.

— English Proverb

“To repent is to find rest in the LORD God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The grace of God is freely given.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

There's no repentance in the grave.

— Isaac Watts

“Without God's grace, we stumble in sin.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Repentance is difficult when you resent it.”

— Melissa Brown

“Repentance is siding with God against self.”

— Todd Nibert

True repentance does not permit repetition.

— Spencer W. Kimball

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

— Billy Graham

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.

— Neal A. Maxwell

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

— Charles Spurgeon

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

— Benjamin Franklin

Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance.

— Fred A. Hartley, Jr

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

— D. Todd Christofferson

It is not repentance that saves me; repentance is the sign that I realise what God has done in Christ Jesus.

— Oswald Chambers

“If the love of God will not induce the rebel to yield the terrors of an eternal hell will not drive him…

— Ellen G. White

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Gilbert Parker

“Repentance is not a turning from one category of works to another; rather it is a turning from human works entirely to…

— Bryan Chapell

“I agree that every saint has a past, but not that every sinner has a future. In this life we see a…

— Criss Jami

“Think of the repentance that could take place with lives changed, marriages preserved, and homes strengthened, if pride did not keep us…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“The lack of repentance or the abundance of repentance is the deciding factor to whether we thrive, or survive. ”

— Stephen D. Morrison

We need to ask God for forgiveness and do all we can to correct whatever harm our actions may have caused. Repentance…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We should not forget the principles of Christian mercy and justice: to welcome back those who are repentant and need our assistance,…

— Mark Skousen

Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from…

— David A. Bednar

“Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of…

— Shannon L. Alder

Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the…

— Rene Descartes

Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian…

— Joseph Addison

The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by…

— Joseph Parker

“When you scold someone, it is your prakruti [your relative self], there is nothing wrong with that. But if you do ‘pratikraman’…

— Dada Bhagwan

“I had never deserved to be forgiven in the first place when I Was converted. I could do nothing to merit God's…

— Helen Roseveare

God uses suffering to purge sin from our lives, strengthen our commitment to Him, force us to depend on grace, bind us…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant…

— N.T. Wright

We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,”…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“repentance recall men from what is according to their nature; all that it does is to make them cease from sinning. Had…

— Athanasius of Alexandria

Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and…

— Jim Wallis

“The idea behind verses about the sealing of hearts appears to be the psychological law that if a person once does a…

— Fazlur Rahman

As we have a high old time this Christmas may we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they…

— Nate Saint