Repentance Quotes - Page 14

• Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.

  Laurence Sterne

  Death, Stress, Bed

  Laurence Sterne (1859). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy: Gentleman & A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy”, p.540

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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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• Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.

  Ambrose

  Angel, Lord, Release

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds". Book by Louis Klopsch, 1896.

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• You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!

  Abu Nuwas

  Mad, Tears, Want

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• True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Sorrow, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.332

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• America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!

  Billy Sunday

  America, Needs, Needed

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• As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God provides, exactly as for a newborn infant, is the comfort, protection, and nurturing promise of a mother. "If God is our father, the church is our mother." The words are those of the Swiss Reformer John Calvin ... it is as impossible, unnecessary, and undesirable to be a Christian all by yourself as it is to be a newborn baby all by yourself.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Mother, Baby

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• Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Soul, Midnight, Way

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.67

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• Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

  Lew Wallace

  Heaven, Sin, Mere

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Diversion Classics)”, p.482, Diversion Books

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• O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Struggle, Angel

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.361, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Blessed are those who have known meditation. Only those few people are the blessed people; others are simply groping in darkness. Meditation gives you an inner light, and then wherever you are there is light and whatsoever you do, you do in full light and clarity. Hence there is never any guilt, no repentance, no looking back. Whatsoever one does, one feels that`s the only thing that can be done. It is always right.

  Rajneesh

  Blessed, Light, People

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• Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.

  John Climacus

  Forgiveness, Running, Spiritual

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• Self-righteousness....is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• John's baptism...was a radical act of individual commitment to belong to the true people of God, based on personal confession and repentance... This is one of the main reasons that I do not believe in baptizing infants, who cannot make this personal commitment or confession or repentance. John's baptism was an assault on the very assumptions that give rise to much infant baptism.

  John Piper

  Believe, Commitment, People

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• Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

  Henry Miller

  Strong, Sin, Ends

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.203, New Directions Publishing

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• The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and self-sacrifice, the shorn and tangled fibers of human aspirations, faith, and hopes, who will transcend the fears and dangers of an adventure of trust. The road to unity is the road of repentance.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Heart, Adventure, Sacrifice

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• I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

  Demosthenes

  Cost, Decline, Thousand

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• Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.

  Jim Wallis

  Kings, Powerful, Moving

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• I think that honesty in presenting the gospel goes out the window when you want people to respond to the message, but you are prepared to accept any sort of response. Of course, the only true response is heartfelt repentance and faith. However, if you don't feel the need to be honest in your presentation, then you will calibrate your presentation of the gospel to whatever gets the response you want.

  Mark Dever

  Honesty, Thinking, People

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• Salvation is accomplished by the almighty power of the Triune God. The Father chose a people, the Son died for them, the Holy Spirit makes Christ's death effective by bringing the elect to faith and repentance, thereby causing them to willingly obey the gospel. The entire process (election, redemption, regeneration) is the work of God and is by grace alone. Thus God, not man, determines who will be the recipients of the gift of salvation.

  Loraine Boettner

  God, Faith, Religious

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• What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pleasure, Console

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

  Thomas Brooks

  Too Late, Never Too Late, Late

  Thomas Brooks (1867). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.196

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• Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Jesus, Atonement, Christ

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• Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

  LeCrae

  Christian, People, Sin

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