Repentance Quotes

401 Repentance quotes by 257 unique authors

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's… — Ellen G. White
Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone. — Ravi Zacharias
Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us… — Henry B. Eyring
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and… — Aldous Huxley
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and… — C.S. Lewis
The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
[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 kind… — C.S. Lewis
The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning. — Jimmy Buffett
Repentance can become a very, very deep phenomenon in you if you understand the responsibility. Then even a small thing, if it becomes a repentance--… — Rajneesh
Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. — Saint Augustine
True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior. — Ezra Taft Benson
Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine. — Neal A. Maxwell
We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or… — C.S. Lewis
Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are… — Sharon Kay Penman
We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but… — Spencer W. Kimball
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies… — Michel de Montaigne
Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart… — Plutarch
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home. — Anne Rice
Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. — Ted Chiang
Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation. — Francine Rivers
Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being… — John Ortberg

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