Repentance Quotes - Page 11

• The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

  John Bunyan

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• There is great danger, yea many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernibly in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul and to cut the throat of the soul.

  Thomas Brooks

  Strong, Cutting, Soul

  "Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Or, Salve for Believers and Unbelievers Sores".

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• Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.

  Paul Washer

  Giving Up, Fall, Fighting

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

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Men, Giving

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• To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.

  J. C. Ryle

  Sorry, Giving, Hypocrisy

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.58, Editora Dracaena

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• We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ in this passage: ‘The gate is narrow’. Repentance, and faith in Christ, and holiness of life, have never been fashionable. The true flock of Christ has always been small. It must not move us to find that we are reckoned singular, and peculiar, and bigoted, and narrow minded. This is the ‘narrow way’. Surely it is better to enter into eternal life with a few, than to go to ‘destruction’ with a great company

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Moving, Holiness

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• Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.

  Augustus Toplady

  Free Gifts, Holiness, Eternal Life

  Augustus Toplady (1794). “The Works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.250

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• 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

  Men, Differences, Righteous Man

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Biblical, Grace, Progress

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• The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Gratitude, Expression, Order

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.48, Multnomah

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• Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful.

  John H. Groberg

  Meaningful, Jesus, Baptism

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• Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away from sin, but the heart still clings. But repentance out of conviction over mercy is really sorrow over sin, sorrow over the grievousness of sin — it melts the heart away from sin. It makes the sin itself disgusting to us, so it loses its attractive power over us. We say, ‘this disgusting thing is an affront to the one who died for me. I’m continuing to stab him with it!’

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Sorrow, Sin

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• But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.

  Archibald Alexander

  Jesus, Believe, Uprising

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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• When something goes wrong, what's the best course of action? To change your direction. The word repentance means to stop going one direction (your own way) and turn toward the right direction (God's way). Your past may be a part of who you are, but it certainly doesn't have to define your future. Or if you feel stuck and unable to change directions and move toward God, think of this transformation another way. The Bible says that God is the Potter and we are his clay (Jer. 18:2-6).

  Craig Groeschel

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

  Francis Quarles

  Parent, Honor, Desire

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• The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. ... In contrast, Jesus reaches down to us to lift us up. Through our repentance and the gift of the Atonement, we can prepare to be worthy to stand in His presence.

  James E. Faust

  Jesus, Mistake, Evil

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• Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

  Hannah More

  Mind, Needs, States

  Hannah More (1847). “The Complete Works of Hannah More”, p.179

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• he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

  Hannah More

  Time, Fetch, May

  Hannah More (1835). “Works, Complete”, p.290

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• The knowledge of my sin
  Is half-repentance.

  Bayard Taylor

  Half, Sin

  Bayard Taylor (1873). “Lars: A Pastoral of Norway”, p.93

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• Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

  George Sand

  Life Is, Sin, Sponges

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• Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.

  Thomas Secker

  Charity, Rewards, Way

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• Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.

  John Tillotson

  Hope, Men, Sick

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.663

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• no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.

  Ethel Smyth

  Trustworthy, Found, Has Beens

  Ethel Smyth (1940). “What happened next”, Longmans, Green

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• Repentance means to have a hearty, thorough, change of mind and it includes the idea of rejecting and renouncing the sinful, filthy lifestyle you've been living. And for the most part, fags cannot repent because they're proud of their sin.

  Fred Phelps

  Mean, Ideas, Mind

  "Fred Phelps Gave Me My First Big Break". Interview With A.J. Daulerio, theconcourse.deadspin.com. March 26, 2014.

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• Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

  C. S. Lewis

  Demand, Description, Ifs

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.60, HarperCollins UK

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