Repent Quotes

Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.

There’s nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It’s crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.

True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume – with good reason – that this is what the apostles implied.

I’ve heard pro-lifers yell at abortion clinic workers that they should ‘Repent!’ Repent of what? They don’t see what they are doing as something that needs to be repented of. Why? Because they are blinded. Do you think yelling at them will remove that blindness? Not likely.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Even the acceptance of personal responsibility may not overcome the temptation to believe that now is not the time to repent. ‘Now’ can seem so difficult, and ‘later‘ appear so much easier. The truth is that today is always a better day to repent than any tomorrow.

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.

Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

It’s bad when you fail morally. It’s worse when you don’t repent.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit‘s aid than he can create a world.

I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.

We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

I’m always suspicious of people who repent of other people’s sins.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true – a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain’t so wicked as their neighbors.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.