True repentance is to cease from sin.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

— John Bunyan

Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins.

— Aisha bint Abi Bakr

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Thomas Brooks

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

— Charles Spurgeon

True repentance does not permit repetition.

— Spencer W. Kimball

God will is to save us,and nothing pleases him more than our coming back to him with true repentance.

— Anonymous

“If the adversary should take you prisoner due to misconduct, I remind you that you hold the key that will unlock the prison door…

— Boyd K. Packer

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

— Corrie Ten Boom

True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in…

— William Mackergo Taylor

Admittedly, repentance is not always easy; I suppose it would not be true repentance if it were. It can also take a longer time…

— David S. Baxter

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

— William Shakespeare

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Before a person start to walk the Straight & Narrow Path, they have to make some changes within them self, like turning away from…

— Glen Rambharack

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

— John Ortberg