Repentance Quotes

• I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

  William Booth

  Heaven, Ghost, Hell

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Four, Mark, Acknowledgement

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• 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.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Attitude, Heart, Mean

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• Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Fear, Hate

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.172, Penguin

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• Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Determination, Past, Sorrow

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

  David A. Bednar

  Sweet, Fruit, Sin

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• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Kings, Heart, Past

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.79, InterVarsity Press

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• Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.

  Thomas Sherlock

  May, Sin, Wit

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• Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Rebel, Needs

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.59, HarperCollins UK

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• Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Faces, Causes, Celebration

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• Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Humility, Pride, Grace

  "The Doctrine of Repentance". Book by Thomas Watson, 1668.

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• Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction

  Charles Spurgeon

  Real, Life Changing, Home

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.129, Lulu Press, Inc

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• True repentance is to cease from sin.

  Ambrose

  Sin, True Repentance, Cease

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 509, 1895.

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• Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

  William Barclay

  Sorry, Hate, Real

  "Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B".

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• What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Church, Conviction, Ifs

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• No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Heaven, Christ

  J.C. Ryle (2012). “Repentance”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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• Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

  Bonnell Thornton

  Men, Reform, Path

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• When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Christ, Lord

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.40, Fortress Press

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• I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read about Charles G. Finney winning his thousands and his hundreds of thousands of souls to Christ. Then I picked up a book and read the messages of Charles G. Finney and the message of Jonathan Edwards on 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' and I said, 'No wonder men trembled; no wonder they fell in the altars and cried out in repentance and sobbed their way to the throne of grace!'

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Book, Winning, Past

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• Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dying, Sincere, Dropping

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1151, Discovery House

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• Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sorry, Men, Track

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• We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Guilt, Doe, Facts

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Forgiveness, Time

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Repentance is another name for aspiration.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Names

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• Before
  We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we
  Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us,
  But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not
  Enter their profane temples; and for me
  To hope my passage to eternity
  Can be made easy, till I have shook off
  The burthen of my sins in free confession,
  Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them,
  Is against reason.

  Philip Massinger

  Hands, Feet, Sorrow

  Philip Massinger, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford”, p.262

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