John Ortberg Quotes About Repentance

Quotes about: Repentance

• Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

  John Ortberg

  Self Esteem, Believe, Heart

• God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.

  John Ortberg

  Children, Pain, Train Of Thought

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

• True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

  John Ortberg

  Home, Grace, Despair

  John Ortberg (2008). “When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box”, p.121, Zondervan

• When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

  John Ortberg

  Names, Trying, Honest

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