Quotes about Repentance

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

A man walks on through life - with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns 'round. The word 'repentance' means 'turning 'round.' He repents and believes and is saved.

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.

Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man.

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

Today I atone for the mistakes of my past.

Love can't cover over the sins we cover up…If you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up.