Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Repentance

• Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to be got over as fast as possible! No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself. God's little children repent, and so do the young men and the fathers. Repentance is the inseparable companion of faith.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Mistake

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.136, Lulu.com

• Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction

  Charles Spurgeon

  Real, Life Changing, Home

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.129, Lulu Press, Inc

• True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Moving, Grace, Would Be

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2001). “The Soul-Winner”, p.8, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

• You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Depth, Sin

• Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Vices

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].”, p.317

• Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Divorce, Married, Sin

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1859 & 1860: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1613, New Leaf Publishing Group

• Do not sit down and try to pump up repentance from the dry well of a corrupt nature. It is contrary to the laws of your mind to suppose that you can force your soul into that gracious state. Take your heart in prayer to Him who understands it and say, "Lord, cleanse it. Lord, renew it. Lord, work repentance in it." The more you try to produce penitent emotions in yourself, the more you will be disappointed. However, if you believingly think of Jesus dying for you, repentance will burst forth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

• Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Tears, Repentance

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Sermons on Sin, Salvation, and Service”

• The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Grace, Holiness

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847”, p.440, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Remember, He Man

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1501, Barbour Publishing

• Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Desire, Holiness, Repentance

• If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.626, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Speak, Sin

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1859 & 1860: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1641, New Leaf Publishing Group

• Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened,—as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Regret, Heart, Men

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.620, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

• Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dying, Sincere, Repentance

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1151, Discovery House

• Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, Christ, Repentance

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.52, Destiny Image Publishers

• The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Feet, Repentance

• After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Brother, Twins, Repentance

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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