Lew Wallace Quotes

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.

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

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.

Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.

Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness.

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

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

True atonement isn't the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all: not making the same stupid mistake again.

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.

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.

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

To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.

Repentance can become a very, very deep phenomenon in you if you understand the responsibility. Then even a small thing, if it becomes a repentance-- not just verbal, not just on the surface; if it goes deep to the roots, if you repent from the roots; if your whole being shakes and trembles and cries, and tears come out; not only out of your eyes but out of every cell of your body, then repentance can become a transfiguration.

Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

Make tawba not just for sins you've committed, but also for obligations you haven't fulfilled.