Quotes about Repentance

Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself…I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me…Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

No poor creature stands in need of divine grace more than I, and none abuse it more than I have done, and still do.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

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.

It is in our forgiveness of other people's sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

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.

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.