Quotes about Repentance
The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.
— John Bunyan
Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
— JC Ryle
The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.
— Ignatius of Antioch
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
— John Owen
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
— Jonathan Edwards
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
— CS Lewis
A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
— CS Lewis
Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.
— Ambrose of Milan
Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.
— Thomas Watson
It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.
— Cyril of Alexandria
If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?
— Charles Spurgeon