Repentance Quotes - Page 8

• Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

  Thomas Brooks

  Soul

  Thomas Brooks (1735). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Or, Salve for Believers and Unbelievers Sores. ... By Thomas Brooks”, p.44

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• There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Differences, Sorrow, Important

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• Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Kindness, Mercy Of God, Generosity

  "Cleansing the Inner Vessel". Boyd K. Packer's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2010.

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• Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Sight, Transgression

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• Confession without repentance is just bragging.

  Herbert Eugene Bolton

  Atheist, Bragging, Confession

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• Again, after his fall, God gave him an occasion to repent and to receive mercy but he kept his stiff-neck held high. He came to him and said "Adam, Where are you?" instead of saying "What glory you have left and what dishonor you have arrived at?" After that, He asked him "Why did you sin? Why did you transgress the commandment?" By asking these questions, He wanted to give him the opportunity to say, "Forgive me." However, he did not ask for forgiveness. There was no humility, there was no repentance, but indeed the opposite.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Fall, Humility, Opportunity

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• Why did you act in this way, you pitiable ones? Make a bow of repentance, recognize your fault, be sorry for your nakedness. Neither one of them could blame himself, neither of them had the least bit of humility.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Sorry, Humility, Way

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• If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Fall, Weakness

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• Modern Christians, especially those in the Western world, have generally been found wanting in the area of holiness of body. Gluttony and laziness, for example, were regarded by earlier Christians as sin. Today we may look on these as weaknesses of the will but certainly not sin. We even joke about our overeating and other indulgences instead of crying out to God in confession and repentance.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, World, Body

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• My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your shield against tyranny. For when we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Brother, Lying

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• Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Love, Spiritual, Mean

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• I taught what was clear in Acts 11:26: SAVED = CHRISTIAN = DISCIPLE, simply meaning that you cannot be saved and you cannot be a true Christian without being a disciple also. I taught that, to be baptized, you must first make the decision to be a disciple, and then be baptized. I taught that their baptism was invalid because a retroactive understanding of repentance and baptism was not consistent with Scripture.

  Kip McKean

  Christian, Decision, Understanding

  Revolution Through Restoration, 1992.

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• A case can certainly be made that Christians bear a major responsibility for our ecological crisis. But the fault is not their biblical but their unbiblical view of nature. Christians have long failed to understand what the Bible really teaches concerning nature and our responsibility for it. For this there is no excuse. Repentance must be our first response. Our second response must then be to right the wrongs of our faulty understanding and act accordingly. We are all responsible to know what can be known of God's will for nature, and we are then responsible to act on that knowledge.

  James W. Sire

  Christian, Responsibility, Biblical

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• I know of nothing more useful to you than four matters: surrender to Allah, to humbly entreat Him, to think the best of Him, and to perpetually renew your repentance to Him, even if you should repeat as in seventy times in a day.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Thinking

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• Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

  Philip Yancey

  Opposites, Grace, Holiness

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• Faith and repentance are the same; they are not two separate decisions. One cannot trust Christ as Savior without repenting or changing his mind. The very fact that he trusts Christ for salvation shows that he has changed his mind regarding sin, salvation, and God.

  Curtis Hutson

  Change, Trust, God

  Curtis Hutson (2000). “Salvation Crystal Clear”, p.331, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• If Shaytan(Demon) defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Yesterday, Deeds, Today

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• Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and the gift of the Holy Ghost follow baptism. Acceptance of these first principles and ordinances may obtain for us a remission of our sins and assure our salvation. In the ordinance of the sacrament, we regularly renew this and other covenants, and by complying with our part of the covenant, we receive the Spirit of the Lord to be with us.

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Acceptance, Baptism, Principles

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• Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Beautiful, Atonement, Savior

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• The call of repentance is for the righteous and unrighteous, the godly and ungodly alike. If the righteous had been the lights they were called to be, the nation would never have fallen as it did.

  Jonathan Cahn

  Godly, Light, Righteous

  Jonathan Cahn (2012). “The Harbinger”, p.222, Charisma Media

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• Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell
  Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell

  Richard Barnfield

  Love, Pain, Fire

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• Repentance is belief in action.

  J. D. Greear

  Belief, Action

  J. D. Greear (2013). “Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved”, p.40, B&H Publishing Group

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• Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that you begin in a moment and maintain for the rest of your life.

  J. D. Greear

  Prayer, Moving, Rest Of Your Life

  J. D. Greear (2013). “Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved”, p.5, B&H Publishing Group

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• Surveys show that more than 50 percent of people in the U.S. have prayed the sinner's prayer and think they're going to heaven because of it even though there is no detectable difference in their lifestyles from those outside of the church. On this issue- the most important issue on earth- we have to be absolutely clear. We need to preach salvation by repentance before God and faith in the finished work of Christ.

  J. D. Greear

  Prayer, Thinking, Differences

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• Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance of temptation, every motion of repentance, every gesture of concern, every routine engagement, every motion of worship, every struggle towards obedience, every mumbled prayer, everything, literally, which flows out of our faith-relationship with the Ever-Living One, will find its place in the ever-living heavenly order which will dawn at his coming.

  Randy Alcorn

  Prayer, Struggle, Character

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