554 Quotes About Repentance

Sin has a way of making a home for itself and lingering like an unwelcome guest in the rooms of our soul.

Repentance is not a foreboding word. It is, after faith, the most encouraging word in the Christian vocabulary. Repentance is simply the scriptural invitation for growth and improvement and progress and renewal. You can change! You can be anything you want to be in righteousness.

There has many a man gone through that gate without a safe-conduct, who will reach heaven ahead of some who were escorted through with absolution and ceremony, and had their affairs in order. Kings and princes of the church may find shepherds and serfs preferred before them, and some who claim they have done great good may have to give place to poor wretches who have done wrong and acknowledge it, and have tried to make amends.

Jesus Christ suffered,to bear the sin of mankind.

You won’t like hearing this, but sometimes you can’t fix what you broke. Sometimes you just have to live with it.

The unspiritual is a slave to sin.…! But spiritual is slave to righteousness in Christ Jesus.

If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now they did for me. I say remorse not repentance. I doubt if I have ever experienced repentance in a pure form; perhaps it does not exist in a pure form. Remorse contains guilt, but helpless hopeless guilt which knows of no cure for the painful bite.

Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it.

A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind