God is Holy.God is pure.God is faithful.God is gracious.God is merciful.

We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely...

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

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

Where kairos is an event word—something that has a beginning and ending—repentance (metanoia) is a process word, as is believe (pistis). The Circle is a process, a way of living that does not have a...

One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins where the raw anguish of conscience is rubbing against the primordial awareness of...

Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don’t feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they’re stuck right...

The very first evidence of awakening grace is dissatisfaction with one’s self and self-effort and a longing for deliverance from chains of sin that have bound the soul. To own frankly that I am lost...

When true repentance occurs and lifestyles change, God can do marvelous works of restoration. Denying sin, however is not a characteristic of a repentant heart.

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn’t sin but wants to sin.

God is merciful to all who repent and turn to Him.

We made mistakes trying to correct mistakes. Isn’t that how we knew we were parents?

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.

At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims of the cemetary soil; waiting to become eternal people in fellowship for God....

It is not unreasonable to want repentance from a wrongdoer before forgiving that wrongdoer, since, in the absence of repentance, hasty forgiveness may harm both the forgiver and the wrongdoer. The forgiver may be harmed...

I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with our sin.

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

Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. ‘Odd, isn’t it,’ he said, ‘that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and...

The big idea here is not, have you sinned, but are you changing?

If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know.

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages.

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