The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame. — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
“If you truly wish to change what is without, you must first change what festers within.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“We made mistakes trying to correct mistakes. Isn't that how we knew we were parents?” — The Odd Life of Timothy Green Copy Share Image
“What if repentance wasn't a promise from you to God but a gift from God to you?” — John S. Lynch Copy Share Image
Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful. — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation. — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The unspiritual is a slave to sin.…! But spiritual is slave to righteousness in Christ Jesus.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Repentance is possible only when faith is present and where there is faith, repentance will also be found. Faith gives birth to… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
There is sorrow in repentance but not necessarily repentance in sorrow. Just because you're sad doesn't mean you're changing for the better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love always precedes repentance. Divine love is a catalyst for our turning, our healing. Where fear & threat may gain our compliance,… — Michael M. Rose Copy Share Image
My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The truth is that we all need repentance. If we are capable of reason and past the age of eight, we all… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
“You can change direction if you feel like you have missed your way... Decide to do that now! Go back a little… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“no man can come to Christ until he truly knows himself to be a sinner. The self-righteous man cannot come to Christ;… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“There has many a man gone through that gate without a safe-conduct, who will reach heaven ahead of some who were escorted… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“But just for that reason, precipitate repentance is false and is never to be sought after. For it may not be the… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“We have seen some gatekeeping or fencing-the-table language already beginning to rear its head in this context. One needed to be baptized… — Ben Witherington III Copy Share Image
I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
We need to repent of our sin for not loving our children. Spend some time in repentance and read God’s Word and… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
