Inspirational Quotes on Repentance

“If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.”

“Remorse is the consciousness of doing wrong with no sense of love; penitence the same consciousness with the feeling of sorrow and tenderness added.”

“There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.”

“It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.”

“The world does not require so much to be informed as reminded.”

“True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.”

“Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.”

“Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.”

“It is the greatest and dearest blessing that ever God gave to men, that they may repent; and therefore to deny or to delay it is to refuse health when brought by the skill of the physician - to refuse liberty offered to us by our gracious Lord.”

“Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.”

“Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.”

“Repentance needs to be as loud as the sin was.”

“The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.”

“To do so no more is the truest repentance.”

“The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.”

“Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.”

“Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and league with them.”

“All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.”

“Repentance, not proper behaviour or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.”

“It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.”