Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.

We need to ask God for forgiveness and do all we can to correct whatever harm our actions may have caused. Repentance means a change of mind and heart—we stop doing things that are wrong, and we start doing things that are right. It brings us a fresh attitude toward God, oneself, and life in general.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

I remember walking down the aisle, and I got down on my knees as a person who is so selfish, but when I rose back up the Lord had become the Master of my life.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

Only sinners need saviors.

I accepted the forgiveness of God. I got off track as an adult and because I believe in God's grace, I believe that gave me strength then to get that little part of my life realigned, to not play games about it, to confess it, to ask for forgiveness from God and ask others to forgive me as well and then move on.

None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.

It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.

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

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

There is nothing we've done that can't be wiped clean by Christ.