Repentance Quotes

• I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

  William Booth

  Heaven, Ghost, Hell

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Four, Mark, Acknowledgement

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• Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

  J. I. Packer

  Kings, Heart, Past

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.79, InterVarsity Press

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• Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Determination, Past, Sorrow

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• Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Fear, Hate

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.172, Penguin

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• If you were good enough, there would be no need of confessing Christ at all. It is just because you are not good enough, that Christ says to you, "Follow me." He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. It is not the perfect people whom He wants in His church, but those who have a deep sense of their own imperfection, and who believe that His strength is made perfect in weakness.

  Washington Gladden

  Believe, Perfect, People

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 155. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• We need to ask God for forgiveness and do all we can to correct whatever harm our actions may have caused. Repentance means a change of mind and heart—we stop doing things that are wrong, and we start doing things that are right. It brings us a fresh attitude toward God, oneself, and life in general.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Attitude, Heart, Mean

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• Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Humility, Pride, Grace

  "The Doctrine of Repentance". Book by Thomas Watson, 1668.

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• Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Keys, Soul, Guilt

  "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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• Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Rebel, Needs

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.59, HarperCollins UK

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• The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

  Billy Graham

  News, Wonderful, Mercy

  "Evangelist Billy Graham leaves hospital", www.cnn.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

  David A. Bednar

  Sweet, Fruit, Sin

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• The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Uprising, Christian Inspirational, Literature

  Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Absolute Answers to Prodigal Problems”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.

  Thomas Sherlock

  May, Sin, Wit

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• 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

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• It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

  Josh Billings

  Sin, Easier, Committed

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dying, Sincere, Dropping

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

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• Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

  J. I. Packer

  Moaning, Knows, Remorse

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• Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Faces, Causes, Celebration

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• True repentance is to cease from sin.

  Ambrose

  Sin, True Repentance, Cease

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 509, 1895.

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• No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Heaven, Christ

  J.C. Ryle (2012). “Repentance”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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• Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

  William Barclay

  Sorry, Hate, Real

  "Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B".

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• Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

  Bonnell Thornton

  Men, Reform, Path

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• We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Guilt, Doe, Facts

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Repentance is a rich biblical term that signifies an elemental transformation in someone's mind, heart, heart, and life.

  David Platt

  Heart, Biblical, Mind

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.19, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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