Repentance Quotes - Page 16

• 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 Repentance is quite out of date.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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• God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.

  Alan Redpath

  Joy, Tears, Unbroken

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• The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lust, Miserable, Shame

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• Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Distinguished, Ought

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.527, Jazzybee Verlag

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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

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved-but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  God, Christian, Ocean

  "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Final lines, www.gutenberg.org. 1852.

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• You might prove doctrine from the Bible till doomsday, and it would merely convince a people, but would not convert them. You might read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations, and prove every iota that you advance, and that alone would have no converting influence upon the people. Nothing short of a testimony by the power of the Holy Ghost would bring light and knowledge to them -- bring them in their hearts to repentance. Nothing short of that would ever do.

  Brigham Young

  Heart, Light, People

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”, p.327

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• Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

  Saint Basil

  Fall, Light, Numbers

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.22, CUA Press

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• It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, People, Feelings

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.73, Penguin Books India

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• A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life is simply conforming to a standard of right and justice. The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Inspirational, Wise, Good Life

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• As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

  Alberto Manguel

  Revenge, Lying, Heart

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• Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Evil, Soul, Liberty

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

  Honore de Balzac

  Powerful, Sin, Ends

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.59, 谷月社

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• Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Blood, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.176, Dial Press

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• I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Men, Games

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.343, Wildside Press LLC

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