Repentance Quotes

401 Repentance quotes by 257 unique authors

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative. — Abba Eban
Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance. — John Churton Collins
Repentance is accepted remorse. — Sophie Swetchine
Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians. — Vance Havner
There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody. — Desmond Harrington
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace. — John Ortberg
I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the… — Richard G. Scott
There is no 'love of God' for you unless you have repented or unless you do repent. Make no mistake about this. Do not rely… — Martyn
The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is… — Seneca the Younger
God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. — Seneca the Younger
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent. — Seneca the Younger
The dream is short, repentance long. — Friedrich Schiller
You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance. — Henry R Brandt
It is not hateful to say that an immoral action is sinful. On the contrary, the most compassionate thing we can do is help people… — Thomas J. Paprocki
This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the… — Thomas J. Paprocki
By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes… — Unknown Author
Repentance follows hasty counsels. — Publilius Syrus
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. — Publilius Syrus
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may… — Joseph Addison
Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. — Robert Herrick
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. — Anatole France
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a… — Plutarch
There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one,… — Matthew Henry
God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,… — John Masefield

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