Repentance Quotes - Page 15

• The development of faith in the Lord is an individual matter. Repentance is also an individual matter. Only as an individual can one be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost. Each of us is born individually; likewise, each of us is "born again" individually. Salvation is an individual matter.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Development, Matter, Ghost

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• It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment be severe, let it be bitter, nay let it be lasting, but let it at length have an end.

  Thomas Burnet

  Men, Rooms, Purpose

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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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• The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.

  Paul David Tripp

  People, Church, And Love

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• If in this life there are so many ways for purification and repentance, how much more should there be after death! The purification of souls, when separated from the body, will be easier. We can set no limits to the agency of the Redeemer; to redeem, to rescue, to discipline, is his work, and so will he continue to operate after this life.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Agency, Discipline, Soul

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• It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego
  because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself
  It is like a wave
  it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really
  it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again
  pulls itself together with pride
  towers with pride
  rushes forward into imaginary conquest
  crashes in frustration
  withdraws with remorse and repentance
  pulls itself together with new resolution

  Agnes Martin

  Pride, Frustration, Ego

  Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway (1973). “Agnes Martin: Exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”

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• God uses suffering to purge sin from our lives, strengthen our commitment to Him, force us to depend on grace, bind us together with other believers, produce discernment, foster sensitivity, discipline our minds, spend our time wisely, stretch our hope, cause us to know Christ better, make us long for truth, lead us to repentance of sin, teach us to give thanks in time of sorrow, increase faith, and strengthen character.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Character, Commitment, Discipline

  Joni Eareckson Tada, Steven Estes (1997). “When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty”, p.117, Harper Collins

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• True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Mean, Making Amends, Persons

  Lawana Blackwell (2008). “The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark (The Gresham Chronicles Book #3)”, p.437, Baker Books

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• There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.

  John Owen

  Fruit

  JOHN OWEN, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE DEATH OF DEATH IN THE DEATH OF CHRIST”, Lulu.com

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• He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

  Francis Quarles

  Hats, Pardon, Repent

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• The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man—‘off with his head!’ You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven

  Joseph Parker

  Men, Heaven, Challenges

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• Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, each of us can become clean and the burden of our rebellion will be lifted. Remember, repentance is not punishment. It is the hope-filled path to a more glorious future.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Punishment, Path

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• Historical theology has too often failed to interpret repentance as a positive creative force. ... Essentially, if Christianity is to succeed in the next millennium, it must cease to be a negative religion and must become positive.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Creative, Historical, Negative

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• All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Denial, Tongue

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.22

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• For the devil may tempt the good, but he cannot find rest in them; for he is shaken violently, and upset, and driven out, now by their prayers, now by their tears of repentance, and now by their almsgiving and similar good works.

  Bruno of Cologne

  Prayer, Upset, Tears

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• Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. 'For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.' (1 Cor. 11:31-32).

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Judging, Sensual, Hardship

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• Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have been made ready to receive the blessings of the Lord, if we fail, on our part, to keep the commandments.

  Heber J. Grant

  Faith, Blessing, Baptism

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• REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Faith, Punishment, Followers

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.181, 谷月社

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• A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Doe, Sin, Calamity

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• True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong.

  Rick Joyner

  True Repentance, Has Beens, True Faith

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Aug 01, 2014

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• The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Goal, Knees, Worship

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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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