Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Repentance. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Repentance Quotes and Sayings from 78 influential authors, including John Paul Warren,Sinclair B. Ferguson,Anne Carson,D. Todd Christofferson,Emily St. John Mandel, for you to enjoy and share.

Repentance is not merely turning away from your sin but turning to the Lamb who takes away your sin. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". 1 John 1:29 By John Paul Warren Lamb Turning Sin Behold Repentance

Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment. By Sinclair B. Ferguson Repentance Life Moment Characteristic Action

Repent means the pain again. By Anne Carson Repent Pain

Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration. By D. Todd Christofferson Repentance Divine Smile Faces Speak

I repent nothing, By Emily St. John Mandel Repent

Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins. By Neil L. Andersen Repentance Blessing Savior Sins Feel

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. By Anatole France Repentance Spoils Confession

When the doctrine of repentance is fully understood then it is seen that repentance is all that ever needs to be taught for repentance means not only to stop doing those things which are wrong but to start doing those things which are right. By Daniel H. Ludlow Things Repentance Doctrine Fully Understood

repentance is sometimes described as "coming to our senses" (see Luke 15:17)- 2 Tim. 2:25-26). It involves a waking up to the fact that we have been deceiving ourselves and that our ideas, attitudes, values, or goals have been wrong. By Ken Sande Tim Luke Repentance Coming Senses

Repentance is the highest form of worship that a man can give to God. By Bidemi Mark-Mordi God Repentance Highest Form Worship

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness. By Howard W. Hunter Repentance Times Lifts Forgiveness Path

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame. By William Shakespeare Shame True Repentance Shuns Evil

A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind By Eve Berlin Missed Opportunity Repentance Leaves

True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ. By J.c. Ryle True Matter Sin Repentance Light

To repent means to realize that the kind of life we are living is wrong and that we must adopt a completely new set of values. To that end, it involves two things. It involves sorrow for what we have been and it involves the resolve that by the grace of God we will be changed. By William Barclay Involves Repent Realize Kind Life

What does repentance mean? It means to change - to change your mind, change the way that you're living - and to determine that with God's help you will live for Christ. By Billy Graham Change Christ Repentance God Mind

Repentance, as a natural feeling, is a common duty deserving no great praise: indeed, it is so generally mingled with a selfish fear of punishment, that the kindliest estimate makes but little of it. Had not Jesus interposed and wrought out a wealth of merit, our tears of repentance would have been so much water spilled upon the ground. Jesus is exalted on high, that through the virtue of His intercession repentance may have a place before God. In this respect He gives us repentance, because He puts repentance into a position of acceptance, which otherwise it could never have occupied. By Charles Haddon Spurgeon Repentance Feeling Praise Punishment Jesus

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans ... By Thomas Brooks True Heart Repentance Includes Sorrow

Without repentance, there is no remission of sins. By Lailah Gifty Akita Repentance Sins Remission

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon. By Deborah Sampson Notwithstanding Supreme Judge Repentance Offenses

True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin. By J.c. Ryle Knowledge Sin True Repentance Begins

Repentance is for little children. By Adolf Eichmann Repentance Children

Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it. By Boyd K. Packer Repentance Inside Key Unlock Prison

Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged. By J.i. Packer God Repentance Enlarged Turning Sin

Repentance, contrary to popular misconception, is not a heroic first step I make toward Christ, nor is it a feeling-sorry-for my sins. It is the divine gift of being turned toward truth. William Willimon By Gary L. Thomas Christ Repentance Contrary Misconception Sins

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior. By Ezra Taft Benson Change True Behavior Repentance Involves

One can repent even of having repented. By Bernard Berenson Repented Repent

We need to ask God for forgiveness and do all we can to correct whatever harm our actions may have caused. Repentance means a change of mind and heart - we stop doing things that are wrong, and we start doing things that are right. It brings us a fresh attitude toward God, oneself, and life in general. By Dieter F. Uchtdorf God Caused Things Forgiveness Correct

Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better. Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance. By Watchman Nee Thought Mind Change Things Repentance

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people. By George Whitefield God Christ Law True Changed

True repentance relinquishes self-centeredness and selfish motives. True repentance leads us to want to be Spirit-led and to live solely for the glory of God, no matter the consequences. By Susan Brackley True Motives Repentance Relinquishes Selfcenteredness

Repentance is the virtue of weak minds. By John Dryden Repentance Minds Virtue Weak

Repentance (from the Greek metanoia) is the mind itself changed and transformed. It is the supernatural conquering the natural. It is the assumption of the spirit of Christ according to the words of St. Paul: "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ By John A. Kane Greek Repentance Metanoia Transformed Christ

[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 of death. By C.s. Lewis Repentance Unlearning Selfconceit Training Undergoing

Repentance is the threshold to God. When heat meets ice, the solid substance liquefies completely. Repentance liquefies the will of the flesh. Repentance is our daily fruit, our hourly washing, our minute- by-minute wakeup call, our reminder of God's creation, Jesus' blood, and the Holy Spirit's comfort. Repentance is the only no-shame solution to a renewed Christian conscience because it proves the obvious: that God was right all along. To the sexual sinner, repentance feels like death - because it is. The "you" who once was is no longer, even if your old feelings remain. By Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Repentance God Threshold Liquefies Jesus

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance. By Boyd K. Packer God Repentance Generosity Kindness Mercy

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another. By Benjamin Whichcote God Repentance Alter Man Case

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change. By J.i. Packer Repentance Remorse Change Basically Moaning

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. By Francois De La Rochefoucauld Repentance Consequences Remorse Fear

The Miracle of Forgiveness By The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints Forgiveness Miracle

Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness. By D. Todd Christofferson Repentance Forgiveness Cost Swallowed Joy

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause By Ibn Taymiyyah Sins Harm Repentance Removes

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible. By Lawana Blackwell True Repentance Making Amends Person

Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things, thinking the same old thoughts. Repentance is a decision to follow Jesus Christ and become his pilgrim in the path of peace. Repentance is the most practical of all words and the most practical of all acts. It is a feet-on-the-ground-kind-of-word. It puts a person in touch with the reality that God creates. By Eugene H. Peterson Repentance God Things Thinking Thoughts

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin. By Ambrose Bierce Repentance Punishment Sin Faithful Attendant

Repentance recall men from what is according to their nature; all that it does is to make them cease from sinning. Had it been a case of a trespass only, and not of a subsequent corruption, repentance would have been well enough; but when once transgression had begun men came under the power of the corruption proper to their nature and were bereft of the grace which belonged to them as creatures in the Image of God. By Athanasius Of Alexandria Repentance Nature Sinning Men Recall

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 of indifference. By Sara Miles Hungry Repentance Blood Oppressed Imprisoned

He that does not repent, sins again. By Benjamin Whichcote Repent Sins

Redemption is reliant on being forgiven By R.e. Vance Redemption Forgiven Reliant

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance. By Samuel Johnson Repentance Long Lives

If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance. By Steven J. Lawson Repentance Life Changed Repent

Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance; we sail in the peace its boundless waters provide. By Bryan Chapell God Forgiveness Ocean Repentance Surrounds

Forgive that you may be forgiven. By Seneca The Younger Forgive Forgiven

The word repentance is sadly missing today from the average pulpit. It is a very unpopular word. The first sermon Jesus ever preached was "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" [Matthew 4:17 kjv]. By Billy Graham Pulpit Word Repentance Sadly Missing

Repentance is another name for aspiration. By Henry Ward Beecher Repentance Aspiration

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless. By Bryan Davis Sacrifice Repentance Heart Deeds Worthless

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress. By Spencer W. Kimball Progress Day Mans Life Repentance

Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. 'Now' can seem so difficult, and 'later' appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow. By Henry B. Eyring Repent Acceptance Personal Responsibility Overcome

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. By Oscar Wilde Pleasure Repentance Consoles Nowadays Date

True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything". By Serita Ann Jakes True Repentance Relationship

That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face. By Max Muller Repent Face Deed Man Reward

Repentance is the vomit of the soul. By Thomas Brooks Repentance Soul Vomit

No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live. By Chris Murphy Reverse Evil Repent Forgive Live

Repentance is not just a turning to something, it's a turning from something. By R.c. Sproul Turning Repentance

Let us beware of repentance without evidence. By J.c. Ryle Evidence Beware Repentance

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends. By Timothy Keller Life Ends Changing Repentance Begins

Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation. By Paul Washer Christ Stop God Repentance Works

Repent means to renounce sin ... and by God's grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him. By Billy Graham God Repent Sin Renounce Grace

Repenting is a gift God gives us for our own sake, not his. By John Ortberg God Repenting Sake Gift

Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened, - as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart. By Charles Haddon Spurgeon God Expect Repentance Heart Grace

With faith in the merciful Redeemer and His power, potential despair turns to hope. One's very heart and desires change, and the once-appealing sin becomes increasingly abhorrent. A resolve to abandon and forsake the sin and to repair, as fully as one possibly can, the damage he or she has caused now forms in that new heart. This resolve soon matures into a covenant of obedience to God. With that covenant in place, the Holy Ghost, the messenger of divine grace, will bring relief and forgiveness. By D. Todd Christofferson Redeemer Power Potential Hope Faith

Repentance is being sorry enough to quit your sin. You will never know the forgiving mercy of God while you are still wedded to your sins. Repentance is the soul's divorce from sin, but it will always be joined to faithRepentance that is not joined to faith is a legalistic repentanceProfessed faith that is not joined to repentance is a spurious faith, for true faith is faith in Christ to save me not in but from my sin. Repentance and faith are inseparable, and 'unless you repent you will all likewise perish' (Luke 13:3). By Albert Martin Sin Faith Repentance Joined Quit

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated. By Monica Johnson God Repentance Sin Mercy Recognizes

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance. By Mahatma Gandhi Repentance Clean Confession Combined Promise

Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man. By Khem Veasna Repentance Man Biggest Punishment Ideal

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin. By Dorothy L. Sayers Forgiveness Sin Unpardonable

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone. By Mary Elizabeth Braddon Atone Strongest Proof Repentance Endeavor

To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin. By Thomas Brooks Sin Repent Great Mark Grace

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish. By Samuel Johnson Anguish Quick Repent Injuries Repentance

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another. By Frederick William Robertson Thing Grieve Sin Repent

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin. By Thomas Jefferson Dear Prone Slide Sins Sin

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance. By J.c. Ryle Lord Jesus Christ Sins Repentance

Forgiveness is a GIFT to yourself By Yennie Hardiwidjaja Gift Forgiveness

The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting ... " (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know. By Brennan Manning God Guilt Forgiveness Gratuitous Liberation

To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God. By Bruce Wilkinson God Thing Repent Big Heart

If we repent, the Lord will forgive us. By Lailah Gifty Akita Lord Repent Forgive

It is hard to repent, to admit you are wrong on faith alone before the evidence of a feeling of being forgiven and light comes. By Henry B. Eyring Repent Hard Admit Wrong Faith

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love. By William Taylor Hates Sin God True Penalty

Repentance prepares the way and makes the road of our hearts straight. Repentance builds up every low place and takes down every high place in our lives and church families. Repentance prepares us for His presence. By Tommy Tenney Repentance Straight Prepares Makes Road

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. By C.s. Lewis Perfectly Person Repent Bad Good

Forgiving and being forgiven frees our souls and lightens our load. By Sara Dormon Forgiving Load Forgiven Frees Souls

Self-justification is the enemy of repentance. By Spencer W. Kimball Selfjustification Repentance Enemy

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins By Augustus Hopkins Strong Repentance Doubted Genuine Sin Sins

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. By Mother Teresa Forgiven Forgiving

Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance. By Boyd K. Packer Life Times Places Things Sin

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. By Augustine Of Hippo Forgiveness Sins Remission Lost Found

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace. By John Ortberg Leads True Despair Repentance Home

The proof of true repentance is immediate restitution. By Mike Murdock Restitution Proof True Repentance

Biblical repentance, then, is not merely a sense of regret that leaves us where it found us. It is a radical reversal that takes us back along the road of our sinful wanderings, creating in us a completely different mind-set. We come to our senses spiritually (Luke 15:17). Thus the prodigal son's life was no longer characterized by the demand "give me" (v. 12) but now by the request "make me . . ." (v. 19). This lies on the surface of the New Testament's teaching. Regret there will be, but the heart of repentance is the lifelong moral and spiritual turnaround of our lives as we submit to the Lord. By Sinclair B. Ferguson Biblical Leaves Found Repentance Regret

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves. By Francois De La Rochefoucauld Harm Repentances Generally Concern Remorse