Despair Quote by Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is…

— Saint John Chrysostom

Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

— John Ortberg

“There will always be suffering and sorrow in sin, but to repent only because we feel bad or because we have suffered or because…

— Robert D. Hales

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

— Frederick William Robertson

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

— Thomas Brooks

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

— Orville Dewey

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

— Lew Wallace

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's…

— Saint Bernard

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about…

— Thomas a Kempis

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

— Soren Kierkegaard