Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“O Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils,cold,, and hunger, great need makes me entreat my recompense.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop. — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
“Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace...… — William Drummond Copy Share Image
“Likewise, we continue to follow Jesus as we struggle with sin. Repentance ushers us into a life of greater struggle, not out… — J.D. Greear Copy Share Image
One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“We are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God has always sought a humble people. He can use no other... There is always much need of heart preperation, in humility… — Frank Bartleman Copy Share Image
... the people who, in spite of the bonds of sin which fetter them and hinder them (by constraint and by inciting… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
“The Bible says that each person is a sinner and everyone is wicked in the sight of God. God cannot allow sin… — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, repentance is commonly viewed as something we do to get on God’s good side. We think to ourselves, “If I feel… — Jonathan K. Dodson Copy Share Image
“It is now time for us to ask the personal question put to Jesus Christ by Saul of Tarsus on the Damascus… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
“So often, we had the tendency of saying, they're the problem. No, they're not the problem. Our heart is the problem. they… — Lowell Nelson Copy Share Image
Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
“Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he’s having right now. That’s how… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“If there are differences and divisions, let them be healed by counsel, by careful words of loving confrontation that bring repentance in… — Russ Kennedy Copy Share Image
Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The holiness of the gospel is its ability to pierced though the heart.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment. — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong. — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
