“The ordinary soul, struggling against temptation, failing and repenting, and failing again and repenting, but always determined to keep his covenants – can still expect to one day hear ‘Well done thou good and faithful servant.'”

Boyd K. Packer

Topics: Covenants, Forgiveness, Repentance

God doesn’t care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland | The Best Is Yet to Be, Ensign, January 2010

Topics: Becoming like God, Change, Decisions, Discipleship, Forgiveness, Goals, Growth, Heavenly Father, Inspirational Quotes, Mercy, Perfection, Plan of Salvation, Potential, Repentance, Self-mastery, Short Quotes

“Who is righteous? Anyone who is repenting. No matter how bad he has been, if he is repenting he is a righteous man. There is hope for him. And no matter how good he has been all his life, if he is not repenting, he is a wicked man. The difference is which way you are facing. The man on the top of the stairs facing down if much worse off than the man on the bottom step who is facing up. The direction we are facing, that is repentance; and that is what determines whether we are good or bad.”

Hugh Nibley | "Funeral Address"

Topics: Forgiveness, Repentance

“Perhaps we feel we have stepped beyond that reach of the Atonement by knowingly repeating a previously forsaken sin. We understand that God and Jesus were willing to forgive the first time, but we wonder how many more times they will be willing to watch us bumble along before finally roll their eyes and declare, ‘Enough already!’ We struggle so much to forgive ourselves that we wrongly assume God must be having the same struggle.”

Brad Wilcox | The Continuious Atonement

Topics: Atonement, Forgiveness, Repentance

“God cares a lot more about who we are and about who we are becoming, than about who we once were.”

Elder Dale G. Renlund | "Latter-day Saints Keep on Trying"

Topics: Change, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Perfection, Potential, Repentance

“If we fail to forgive ourselves when God has done so, we make ourselves a higher judge than Him.”

CS Lewis | "Mere Christianity"

Topics: Forgiveness, Nature of God, Repentance, Sin

“You can change! You can be anything you want to be in righteousness. If there is one lament I cannot abide, it is the poor, withered cry, ‘Well, that’s just the way that I am.’ I’ve heard it from too many people who want to sin and call it psychology. You can change anything you want to change, and you can do it very fast. Another satanic sucker punch is that it takes years and years and eons and eons to repent. That’s just not true. It takes exactly as long to repent as it takes you to say, ‘Ill change’ and mean it. Of course, there will be problems to work out and restitutions to make…but change, growth, renewal , and repentance can come to you as instantaneously as for Alma.”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland | For Times of Trouble

Topics: Change, Forgiveness, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Repentance

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

Bryan Stevenson | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Topics: Atonement, Perfection, Potential, Repentance

“Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people, but to personally welcome and embrace those who have made it back home.”

Tad R. Callister | The Infinite Atonement

Topics: Celestial Kingdom, Forgiveness, Heaven, Obedience, Repentance

“No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, the clean clothes in the airing cupboard. The only fatal thing is to lose one’s temper and give up.”

CS Lewis | "The Letters of C.S. Lewis"

Topics: Hope, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Repentance

“Don’t insist on remembering things the Lord is willing to forget.”

Hugh B. Brown

Topics: Forgiveness, Repentance

The miracle of the Atonement is not just that we can go home but that—miraculously—we can feel at home there. If Heavenly Father and His Son did not require faith and repentance, then there would be no desire to change. Think of your friends and family members who have chosen to live without faith and without repentance. They don’t want to change. They are not trying to abandon sin and become comfortable with God. Rather, they are trying to abandon God and become comfortable with sin. If the Father and the Son did not require covenants and bestow the gift of the Holy Ghost, then there would be no way to change. We would be left forever with only willpower, with no access to His power. If Heavenly Father and His Son did not require endurance to the end, then there would be no internalization of those changes over time. They would forever be surface and cosmetic rather than sinking inside us and becoming part of us—part of who we are. Put simply, if Jesus didn’t require practice, then we would never become Saints.

Brad Wilcox | His Grace Is Sufficient

Topics: Atonement, Change, Forgiveness, Nature of God, Perfection, Repentance

My promise to you is one that a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles once made to me. I had said to him that because of choices some in our extended family had made, I doubted that we could be together in the world to come. He said, as well as I can remember, “You are worrying about the wrong problem. You just live worthy of the celestial kingdom, and the family arrangements will be more wonderful than you can imagine.”

Elder Henry B. Eyring | A Home Where the Spirit of the Lord Dwells

Topics: Celestial Kingdom, Family, General Conference 2019, Parenting, Repentance

“Do not throw away a man or a woman, old or young. If they commit an evil today and another tomorrow, but wish to be Saints and to be forgiven, do you forgive them, not only seven times, but seventy times seven in a day, if their hearts are fully set to do right. Let us make it a point to pass over their weaknesses and say, “God bless you in trying to be better in time to come,” and act as wise stewards in the kingdom of God.”

Brigham Young | Journal of Discourses, 8:368

Topics: Change, Forgiveness, Repentance

“When we pray, we are not conveying any information to God that he does not already have. Nor, when we confess our sins before him, is it news to him that we have misbehaved. More than we realize, being honest with God in our prayers helps us to be more honest with ourselves.”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell

Topics: Forgiveness, Repentance, Sin

“When we’re tempted to give up, we must remember God is long-suffering, change is a process, and repentance is a pattern in our lives.”

Brad Wilcox | The Continuous Atonement

Topics: Change, Conversion, Repentance, Self-mastery

“You will listen best when you feel, “Father, thy will, not mine, be done.” You will have a feeling of “I want what you want.” Then, the still small voice will seem as if it pierces you…You will act after you have listened because when you hear his voice by the Spirit you will always feel that you are impelled to do something. You mustn’t be surprised if the instruction seems accompanied with what you feel as a rebuke.You might prefer that God simply tell you how well you are doing. But he loves you, wants you to be with him, and knows you must have a mighty change in your heart, through faith on the Lord Jesus Christ, humble repentance, and the making and keeping of sacred covenants.”

Elder Henry B. Eyring | “To Draw Closer to God,” Ensign, May 1991, 67.

Topics: Becoming like God, Covenants, Obedience, Personal Revelation, Repentance

“God would not have commanded us to forgive seventy times seven if he were not prepared to extend the same mathematical generosity.”

Terryl and Fiona Givens | The God Who Weeps

Topics: Forgiveness, Repentance

True repentance is not an event. It is a never-ending privilege. It is fundamental to progression and having peace of mind, comfort, and joy.

Russell M. Nelson

Topics: Repentance

Along the way you will most likely stumble and fall—perhaps many, many times. You are not perfect; falling is part of the qualifying process that allows you to refine your character and serve in a more compassionate way. If you fail, repent and learn from it…Practice so you will do better the next time. Ultimately, it’s up to you.

Elder Gary E. Stevenson | Your Priesthood Playbook

Topics: General Conference 2019, Inspirational Quotes, Repentance

“Satan doesn’t win when he can get us to cross the line but when he convinces us that there is no way back.”

Brad Wilcox | The Continuous Atonement

Topics: Repentance, Satan

“I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A [mathematical] sum [incorrectly worked] can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and [then] working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop’ into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound.”

CS Lewis | The Great Divorce

Topics: Broken Heart & Contrite Spirit, Change, Repentance

“Those of us who have been baptized will review our lives to see what we have done or not done that determines whether the Lord can keep his promise to let the Spirit always be with us. Because we are human still, that reflection usually leads to a desire to repent of things both done and not done.”

Elder Henry B. Eyring | “Making Covenants with God,” fireside address, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, September 8, 1996

Topics: Baptism, Repentance

“We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker’s, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ.”

CS Lewis | The Problem of Pain

Topics: Atonement, Forgiveness, Repentance, Sin, Time