Felt Quote by Ambrose Bierce

What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the…

— Joseph Joubert

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and…

— J. I. Packer

“Repentance means turning toward other human beings, our own flesh and blood, whenever they’re oppressed, hungry, or imprisoned; it means acting with compassion instead…

— Sara Miles

Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite…

— Charles R. Swindoll

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a…

— C. S. Lewis

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

— Honore de Balzac

Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness.

— Theodore M. Burton

Repentance is accepted remorse.

— Sophie Swetchine

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

— Charles Grandison Finney

Repentance is something that is brought about in the human heart by the work of God the Holy Spirit.

— R. C. Sproul