Quotes about Repentance

In one conversation that September in Geneva, Visser 't Hooft asked Bonhoeffer what he prayed for. "If you want to know the truth," Bonhoeffer replied, "I pray for the defeat of my nation. For I believe that is the only way to pay for all the suffering which my country has caused in the world.

Christians do not wish to escape repentance, or chaos, if it is God's will to bring it upon us. We must take this judgement as Christians."

Anyone who perseveres in his sin receives judgement. The church cannot loose the penitent from sin without arresting and binding the impenitent in sin.

if a person remains in a state of unforgiveness the Spirit of the Lord will allow tormentors to enter him. That's what Christ told Peter when the disciple asked, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" (Matt. 18:21).

The amazing thing is that He loves you so much, and yet you're not always right with Him

But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.

He had heard men talk of the unfairness of a death-bed repentance - as if it was an easy thing to break the habit of a life whether to do good or evil.

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

Remorse is feeling sorry, while repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

Like the prodigal's father, God accepts us as we are. But He doesn't want to leave us that way. God will change us.

The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.

Rather than act like a victim who cannot do anything about myself or my circumstance, today I start the process of acknowledging my sin and removing these attitudes, actions, and sins that are unworthy of the new creation I am today in Christ. I can be free, and I will be free. I will be ALL that God intended for me to be!