Repentance Picture Quotes

Repentance is possible only when faith is present and where there is faith, repentance will also be found. Faith gives birth to repentance, and repentance is the evidence of faith. ~ Colin S. Smith

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance. ~ David Lloyd-Jones

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance. ~ Charles Spurgeon

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. ~ Oscar Wilde

True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong. ~ Rick Joyner

Repentance must dig the foundations, but holiness shall erect the structure, and bring forth the top-stone. Repentance is the clearing away of the rubbish of the past temple of sin; holiness builds the new temple which the Lord our God shall inherit. Repentance and desires after holiness never can be separated. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

True repentance is to cease from sin. ~ Ambrose

Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God. ~ Francine Rivers

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

Therefore if we lack the feeling of repentance but nevertheless want to repent; if we choose repentance with the will; we are then repenting, since repentance is that choice of the will. ~ Peter Kreeft

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance. ~ Ovid

Repentance prepares the way and makes the road of our hearts straight. Repentance builds up every low place and takes down every high place in our lives and church families. Repentance prepares us for His presence. ~ Tommy Tenney

There's no repentance in the grave. ~ Isaac Watts

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another. ~ Benjamin Whichcote

The biblical word for personal change is repentance. ~ Rick Warren

And if only fate would have sent him repentance - burning repentance that would have torn his heart and robbed him of sleep, that repentance, the awful agony of which brings visions of hanging and drowning! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

True repentance always involves reform. ~ Hosea Ballou

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans ... ~ Thomas Brooks

Repentance is siding with God against self. ~ Todd Nibert

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change. ~ Timothy Keller

Jesus calls all sinners to repent. True repentance is not a nebulous response of sorrow; it requires definite actions. Repentance so transforms the mind that it results in a changed life. Repentance does not merely say "I'm sorry" (similar to what we say when we accidentally step on someone's foot). Rather, true repentance says from the heart, "I've been wrong and grieve over my sin, but now I see the truth, and I will change my ways accordingly. ~ Joel R. Beeke

Repentance is not just sorrow and confession, it is the turning around of wrong behavior towards right and just action. Repentance from sinful corporate behavior therefore requires systemic change. For many, the cost of that repentance may be too high. ~ Soong-Chan Rah

If we rebuke our heart by a calm, mild remonstrance, with more compassion for it than passion against it and encourage it to make amendment, then repentance conceived in this way will sink far deeper and penetrate more effectually than fretful, angry, stormy repentance. ~ Francis De Sales

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life. ~ Khurram Murad

There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance. ~ John Owen

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated. ~ Charles Spurgeon

To do so no more is the truest repentance. ~ Martin Luther

If repentance were perfection, none of those people repented. Repentance, however, means recognizing Jesus' authority and submitting to it, even though you know your heart is weak, divided, and pulled in conflicting directions. Repentance includes a plea for God to change your inconsistent divided heart. (Psalm 86:11; Mark 9:24) ~ J.D. Greear

Most Christians never associate joy with repentance. But repentance is actually the mother of all joy in Jesus. Without it, there can be no joy. Yet, any believer who walks in repentance will be flooded with the joy of the Lord. ~ David Wilkerson

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish. ~ Samuel Johnson

Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance. ~ Decimus Laberius

Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it. ~ D.R. Silva

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy. ~ Edmund Spenser

Repentance is the threshold to God. When heat meets ice, the solid substance liquefies completely. Repentance liquefies the will of the flesh. Repentance is our daily fruit, our hourly washing, our minute- by-minute wakeup call, our reminder of God's creation, Jesus' blood, and the Holy Spirit's comfort. Repentance is the only no-shame solution to a renewed Christian conscience because it proves the obvious: that God was right all along. To the sexual sinner, repentance feels like death - because it is. The "you" who once was is no longer, even if your old feelings remain. ~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Repentance is a gift of God's grace. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Repentance is another name for aspiration. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance. ~ Samuel Johnson

Repentance, as a natural feeling, is a common duty deserving no great praise: indeed, it is so generally mingled with a selfish fear of punishment, that the kindliest estimate makes but little of it. Had not Jesus interposed and wrought out a wealth of merit, our tears of repentance would have been so much water spilled upon the ground. Jesus is exalted on high, that through the virtue of His intercession repentance may have a place before God. In this respect He gives us repentance, because He puts repentance into a position of acceptance, which otherwise it could never have occupied. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause ~ Ibn Taymiyyah

Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor earth. ~ George Eliot

Repentance is for little children. ~ Adolf Eichmann

An arrogant laughs at repentance. ~ Toba Beta

Repentance is not a foreboding word. It is, after faith, the most encouraging word in the Christian vocabulary. Repentance is simply the scriptural invitation for growth and improvement and progress and renewal. You can change! You can be anything you want to be in righteousness. ~ Jeffrey R. Holland

The knowledge of my sin
Is half-repentance. ~ Bayard Taylor

Repentance is the highest form of worship that a man can give to God. ~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

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

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody. ~ Desmond Harrington

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment. ~ Herman Melville

He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent. ~ Francis Quarles

The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance! ~ Saib Tabrizi

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance! ~ Moliere

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true. ~ Thomas Brooks

The only reality is the grace of repentance. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind ~ Eve Berlin

Let us beware of repentance without evidence. ~ J.C. Ryle

Repentance is root of regeneration. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace. ~ Brennan Manning

The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength. ~ Frank Bartleman

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution. ~ Corrie Ten Boom

I have been preaching repentance for seventy years; there are thousands of ministers of the Gospel all over this planet preaching repentance this very hour ... and most of the time the world has laughed in the face of the King of kings. ~ Billy Graham

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you. ~ Bruce Wilkinson

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance. ~ Hosea Ballou

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. ~ Ted Chiang

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Bad men are full of repentance. ~ Aristotle.

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress. ~ Spencer W. Kimball

You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent! ~ Abu Nuwas

If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors. ~ J. Golden Kimball

Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness. ~ Theodore M. Burton

Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man. ~ Khem Veasna

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change. ~ J.I. Packer

If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder. ~ John Bunyan

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell. ~ Thomas Watson

Through repentance the filth of our foul actions is washed away. After this, we participate in the Holy Spirit, not automatically, but according to the faith, humility and inner disposition of the repentance in which our soul is engaged. For this reason it is good to repent each day as the act of repentance is unending. ~ Symeon The New Theologian

Make them imagine repentance more like an appearance in court before a cranky old judge, less like a child knocking on his father's study door to have a chat. ~ Geoffrey Wood

Repentance is but want of power to sin. ~ John Dryden

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people. ~ George Whitefield

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance. ~ Ogden Nash

Work in me more profound and abiding repentance;
Give me the fullness of godly grief, that trembles and fears, yet ever trust and loves, which is ever powerful, and ever confident;
Grant through the tears of repentance I may see more clearly the brightness and glories of the saving cross. ~ Arthur Bennett

The dream is short, repentance long. ~ Friedrich Schiller

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ~ William Hazlitt

Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression. ~ D. Todd Christofferson

We are approaching again the Great Lent - the time of repentance, the time of our reconciliation with God. Repentance is the beginning and also the condition of a truly Christian life. ~ Alexander Schmemann

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. ~ Ambrose Bierce

By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once. ~ Rumi

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it. ~ Thomas A Kempis

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin. ~ Timothy Keller

Repentance is not subsequent to belief; it is part of belief. It is belief in action-choice that flow out of conviction. Repentance literally means "a change of mind" (in Greek, metanoia; meta-"new", noia="mind") about Jesus. Repentance is not merely changing your action; it is changing your actions because you have changed your attitude about Jesus' authority and glory. ~ J.D. Greear

They view repentance as the thing they have to do in order to earn forgiveness, therefore the more difficult they make it, the more credit they tally up. ~ Geoffrey Wood

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct. ~ Theodore L. Cuyler

Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness. ~ D. Todd Christofferson

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power? ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer