Quotes about Repentance
Again and again, God's Word reveals that He is not as concerned about the depth or extent of the sin we commit as He is about our attitude and response when we are confronted with our sin.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.
— JC Ryle
It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.
— Jonathan Goforth
I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.
— CS Lewis
So much as one person with a contrary spirit to God is enough to affect all the meetings - that the revival fire did not flow until that person broke and confessed, or the Lord removed him.
— Jonathan Goforth
If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
— Timothy Keller
This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.
— Charles Spurgeon
If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.
— Catherine Booth
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
— Alphonsus Liguori
God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
— JC Ryle
Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.
— CS Lewis