Repentance Quotes - Page 23

• Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.

  Billy Graham

  Feet, Grace, Bows

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured, comfort those who grieve and who weep, be merciful, humble, kind, calm, patient, sympathetic, forgiving, reverent, truthful and pious, so that God might accept your fasting and might plentifully grant you the fruits of repentance.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Spiritual, Humble, Grieving

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• Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

  Omar Khayyam

  Spiritual, Spring, Winter

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1993). “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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• If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.

  Vavasor Powell

  Prayer, Recovery, Temptation

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• Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Men, Transformed

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• Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah cries, we have believed, and we testify that the very baptism which he announced is alone able to purify those who have repented. It is the water of life. But the cisterns which you have dug for yourselves are broken and of no benefit to you. For what is the use of a baptism which cleanses the flesh and body alone? Baptize the soul from wrath and from covetousness, from envy, and from hatred, and, lo, the body is pure.

  Justin Martyr

  Water Of Life, Wrath, Broken

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• There is no 'love of God' for you unless you have repented or unless you do repent. Make no mistake about this. Do not rely or bank on God's love. It is only for the penitent; there is no entry into the kingdom of God except by repentance.

  Martyn

  Mistake, Kingdoms, God Love

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• Humility is the essence of repentance. Humility is selfless, not selfish. It doesn't demand its own way or speak with moral superiority. Instead, humility answers softly and listens kindly for understanding, not vindication. Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Selfish, Humility, Heart

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• For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

  Charles Simmons

  Hype, Shame, Ends

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• Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Years, Iraq

  "Brzezinski and Mead on Tony Blair". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2003.

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

  Moliere

  Father, Son, Offense

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.247, Penguin

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• Repentance is being sorry enough to quit your sin. You will never know the forgiving mercy of God while you are still wedded to your sins. Repentance is the soul's divorce from sin, but it will always be joined to faithRepentance that is not joined to faith is a legalistic repentanceProfessed faith that is not joined to repentance is a spurious faith, for true faith is faith in Christ to save me not in but from my sin. Repentance and faith are inseparable, and 'unless you repent you will all likewise perish' (Luke 13:3).

  Albert Martin

  Sorry, Divorce, Mercy Of God

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• We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life. ... We are all children of a Heavenly Father who has sent us to earth with the invitation to prepare for eternal life. Every choice, every experience, every repentance and reformation prepares us for what is to come.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Father, Choices

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• If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you will seek it with sincerity and cultivate it, it will come. And even though he whom you have forgiven continues to pursue and threaten you, you will know you have done what you could to effect a reconciliation. There will come into your heart a peace otherwise unattainable.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Forgiveness, Heart, Expression

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• If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

  J. Golden Kimball

  Forgiveness, Discouraged, Labor

  J. Golden Kimball (2008). “J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons”, p.122, Latter-day Publishing

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• Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Echoes, Losing, Virtue

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• Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

  Pietro Aretino

  Art, Exercise, Practice

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Forgiveness is as wide as repentance.

  Marion G. Romney

  Forgiveness, Wide

  Marion G. Romney (1971). “Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney”

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• Christ prayed for those that crucified Him: 'Father, count not this sin against them; they know not what they do.' Archdeacon Stephen prayed for those who stoned him so that the Lord would not judge this sin against them. And so we, if we wish to retain grace, must pray for our enemies. If you do not find pity on a sinner who will suffer in flames, then you do not carry the grace of the Holy Spirit, but rather an evil spirit; and while you yet live, you must free yourself from his clutches through repentance.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Father, Flames, Evil

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