REPENTANCE QUOTES II
quotations about repentance
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Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
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Maxims
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The sinning is the best part of repentance.
ANONYMOUS
It is a great deal easier to commit a second sin, than it was to commit the first; and a great deal harder to repent of a second, than it was to repent of the first.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN
Palamon and Arcite
Some often repent yet never reform; they resemble a man travelling a dangerous path who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
Moreover, true repentance never exists except in conjunction with faith, while on the other hand, wherever there is true faith, there is also real repentance. The two are but different aspects of the same turning--a turning away from sin in the direction of God.
LOUIS BERKHOF
Systematic Theology
Remorse is the poison of life, and repentance its cure.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
The 'I', the 'self' of the child of God, is born in the midst of the ruins of repented idolatry.
JAMES ALISON
Faith Beyond Resentment
In true repentance, wrought by the Holy Spirit through the application of divine truth to the mind and conscience, though there may be much fear, much of well-founded apprehension, and a painful sense of guilt and danger, yet there will be some intermingling of hope. The penitent himself may not always be very distinctly conscious of it, until he come more carefully to examine the state of his mind. He may at particular seasons be almost overwhelmed by distress and by apprehension; yet, in every true penitent there is a hope, a measure of hope, however at seasons faint and indistinct. And his hope is, that God, who has wounded him, will undertake to heal him; and that he shall soon be brought to experience the pardon of his sin, and adoption into the family of God.
JABEZ BUNTING
Sermons
He that does not repent, sins again.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Whatever we may be there are voices which call us to repentance; nature as well as our whole life is full of them, only our ears are heavy and will not hear.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM KRUMMACHER
The Suffering Saviour: Or, Meditations on the Last Days of Christ
Repent TODAY, because refusal to do so is inconsistent with a desire to repent. Unconverted persons never more decieve themselves than when they plead that they have a sincere wish to return to God. If you credit their assertions, there is nothing which they so strongly desire as to have experience of true religion. But such a desire, if genuine, would instantly break up all these habits of indolent lingering. He who desires to be healed, flies to the physician. He who means to escape shipwreck, loses not a moment in lashing himself to some buoyant material. He who craves deliverance from conflagration, instantly rushes from amidst the flaming timbers. And he who longs to be saved, puts aside every other interest and engagement as unimportant, and devotes all the energies of his soul to this single point, that he may escape from the wrath to come.
JAMES WADDEL ALEXANDER
The Revival and Its Lessons
Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
Official Report of the Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 158
How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?
CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI
The Mistress of Spices
There is a repentance unto death; the regret for having sinned, springing from no other cause than horror of sin's punishment, is many a time felt very dreadfully on the bed of death by the ungodly who are dying in their sins.
RALPH WARDLAW
attributed, Day's Collacon
The sun may rise tomorrow, but you may not. Repent today.
WHYISLAM
Twitter post, April 1, 2014
Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
JOHN ORTBERG, JR.
The Me I Want to Be
Jesus calls all sinners to repent. True repentance is not a nebulous response of sorrow; it requires definite actions. Repentance so transforms the mind that it results in a changed life. Repentance does not merely say "I'm sorry" (similar to what we say when we accidentally step on someone's foot). Rather, true repentance says from the heart, "I've been wrong and grieve over my sin, but now I see the truth, and I will change my ways accordingly."
JOEL R. BEEKE
Why Christ Came: 31 Meditations on the Incarnation
Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance, and, with his bad legs, falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Much Ado about Nothing
Repentance is purgative; fear not the working of this pill.
THOMAS WATSON
The Doctrine of Repentance