Quotes about Repentance
It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
— Abraham Lincoln
Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer
— Charles Spurgeon
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
— St. Augustine
The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
— John Bunyan
The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.
— JD Greear
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
— JC Ryle
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
— Charles Spurgeon
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
— JC Ryle
Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
— JC Ryle
There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.
— John Bunyan
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
— JC Ryle