Repentance Quotes - page 4

If you were good enough, there would be no need of confessing Christ at all. It is just because you are not good enough, that Christ says to you, "Follow me." He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. It is not the perfect people whom He wants in His church, but those who have a deep sense of their own imperfection, and who believe that His strength is made perfect in weakness. (Washington Gladden)
True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God's love. View quote
William Mackergo Taylor
The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.... A bad bargain is always a ground for repentance. View quote
Pliny the Elder
As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin. View quote
Martin Buber
Bad men are full of repentance. View quote
Aristotle
I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance. Still I must save this government if possible. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The 'Union' arrangements are all a humbug. They reverse the scriptural order, calling the righteous and not sinners to repentance. Let us not be slandered or intimidated to turn from our duty. Eternal right makes might. As we understand our duty, let us do it! View quote
Abraham Lincoln
...faith and repentance, i. e. believing Jesus to be the Messiah, and a good life, are the indispensable conditions of the new covenant, to be performed by all those who would obtain eternal life. (The reasonableness, or rather necessity of which, that we may the better comprehend, we must a little look back to what was said in the beginning. View quote
John Locke
True (quoth Ales) thinges doone can not be vndoone, Be they done in due tyme, to late, or to soone, But better late than neuer to repent this, To late (quoth my aunt) this repentance showd is, Whan the stéede is stolne shut the stable durre. View quote
John Heywood
If a man has sinned and denies it, saying: 'I have not sinned,' do not reprimand him; for that will discourage him. But say to him, 'Do not lose heart, brother, but be on guard in future,' and you will stir his soul to repentance. View quote
Poemen
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant. (Basil of Caesarea)
Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment. View quote
Sinclair B. Ferguson
The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance. View quote
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation. View quote
Francine Rivers
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment. View quote
Jose Bergamin
Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you. View quote
Bruce Wilkinson
Narrated Aisha: I bought a cushion having pictures on it. When Allah's Apostle saw it, he stopped at the gate and did not enter. I noticed the signs of hatred (for that) on his face! I said, "O Allah's Apostle! I turn to Allah and His Apostle in repentance! What sin have I committed?" He said, "What about this cushion?" I said, ‘I bought it for you to sit on and recline on." Allah's Apostle said, "The makers of these pictures will be punished (severely) on the Day of Resurrection and it will be said to them, ‘Make alive what you have created.'" He added, "Angels do not enter a house in which there are pictures." View quote
Aisha
The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. View quote
Billy Graham
Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness. View quote
Billy Graham
Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness. View quote
Henry B. Eyring
The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith - enough for the Holy Ghost to lead us to repentance, baptism, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants with God. This faith requires enduring bravely the trials of mortal life. (Henry B. Eyring)
3623. No Resolutions of Repentance hereafter can be sincere. View quote
Thomas Fuller (writer)
5545. When all is gone, Repentance comes too late. View quote
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Communism, they will admit, is Socialism gone hog-wild, but they do not seem capable of recognizing this as an inevitable consequence. Their hatred of Communism does not make them individualists. This is not to question the sincerity of those who have hit the sawdust trail. Far from it. The individualist, who accepts as basic the right of every man to make a fool of himself-provided he does not infringe the equal rights of others-is quick to accept the repentance at face value. But, repentance is not conversion; there is reason to believe that conversion is impossible. View quote
Frank Chodorov
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. View quote
Charles Simmons