Top 57 True Repentance Quotes (BLESSINGS)

20 Quotes on the True Essence of Repentance

“Repentance is no fun at all. It is something harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years.”
C. S. Lewis

True repentance never exists in conjunction with faith, while, on the other hand, wherever there is true faith, there is also real repentance. - Louis Berkhof — True repentance never exists in conjunction with **faith**, while, on the other hand, wherever there is true faith, there is also real repentance. – Louis Berkhof

Obedience is the positive side of repentance. - John Blanchard — Obedience is the positive side of repentance. – John Blanchard

Repentance is an attitude that leads to action. - John Blanchard — Repentance is an **attitude** that leads to **action**. – John Blanchard

Repentance is an inner change of heart and mind and an outward change of life. - John Blanchard — Repentance is an inner change of heart and mind and an outward change of life. – John Blanchard

True repentance is personal, permanent, painful and profitable. - John Blanchard — True repentance is personal, permanent, painful and profitable. – John Blanchard

No one repents of his own accord. - John Calvin — No one repents of his own accord. – John Calvin

Repentance is nothing else but a reformation of the whole life according to the Law of God. - John Calvin — Repentance is nothing else but a reformation of the whole life according to the Law of God. – John Calvin

The beginning of repentance is the confession of guilt. - John Calvin — The beginning of repentance is the confession of guilt. – John Calvin

Repentance is a change of the mind and regeneration is a change of the man. - Thomas Adams — Repentance is a change of the mind and regeneration is a **change** of the man. – Thomas Adams

Repentance is ultimate honesty. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Repentance is ultimate **honesty**. – **Dietrich Bonhoeffer**

According to the greatness of the sin must the repentance be. - Ambrose — According to the greatness of the sin must the repentance be. – Ambrose

Repentance is a continual spring, where the waters of godly sorrow are always flowing. - Thomas Brooks — Repentance is a continual spring, where the waters of godly sorrow are always flowing. – Thomas Brooks

No repentance is true repentance which does not recognize Jesus as Lord over every area of life. - John C. Chapman — No repentance is true repentance which does not recognize Jesus as Lord over every area of life. – John C. Chapman

Repentance is the process by which we see ourselves, day by day, as we really are sinful, needy, dependent people. - Charles Colson — Repentance is the process by which we see ourselves, day by day, as we really are: sinful, needy, dependent people. – Charles Colson

True repentance does not substitute sacrifice for obedience. - Vance Havner — True repentance does not substitute sacrifice for obedience. – Vance Havner

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God’s love. - W. M. Taylor — True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God’s love. – W. M. Taylor

Repentance is the turning of the whole heart from sin and Satan to serve God in newness of life. - Erroll Hulse — Repentance is the turning of the whole heart from sin and Satan to serve God in newness of life. – Erroll Hulse

True repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. - Robert South — True repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. – Robert South

Repentance with man is the changing of his will; repentance with God is the willing of a change. - John Trapp — Repentance with man is the changing of his will; repentance with God is the willing of a **change**. – John Trapp

14 Quotes on True Repentance and Blessing & How They Intertwined

“When we truly comprehend our own nature, repentance is no dry doctrine, no frightening message, no morbid form of self-flagellation. It is, as the early church fathers said, a gift God grants which leads to life.”
Charles Colson

Repentance is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. - John Milton — Repentance is the **golden** key that opens the palace of eternity. – John Milton

Every man feels more comfort and spiritual joy after true repentance for a sin, than he had in that innocence before he committed the sin. - John Donne — Every man feels more comfort and spiritual joy after true repentance for a sin, than he had in that innocence before he committed the sin. – John Donne

If sin and thy heart be two, Christ and thy heart are one. - Thomas Brooks — If sin and thy heart be two, Christ and thy heart are one. – Thomas Brooks

Repentance, if it be true, strikes at the root and washes the heart from wickedness. - Matthew Henry — Repentance, if it be true, strikes at the root and washes the heart from wickedness. – Matthew Henry

Nothing will make the faces of God’s children more fair than for them to wash themselves every morning in their tears. - Samuel Clark — Nothing will make the faces of God’s **children** more fair than for them to wash themselves every morning in their tears. – Samuel Clark

“Real repentance produces confession and forsaking of sin, reconciliation and restitution, separation from the world, submission to the lordship of Christ and filling of the Holy Spirit.”
Vance Havner