True Repentance Quotes

• Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Repentance And Forgiveness, Faults

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• Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.

  John the Baptist

  Repentance And Forgiveness, Heaven, Jesus Christ

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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, Repentance, Mark

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• True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Godly, Light

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• True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.

  J. C. Ryle

  Hatred, Sorrow, Goes On

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• True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

  John Ortberg

  Home, Grace, Despair

  John Ortberg (2008). “When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box”, p.121, Zondervan

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• True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Behavior, Repentance

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty;
  and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.

  William Taylor

  Hate, Sin, Repentance

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• True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.

  George Whitefield

  Law, People, Soul

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.369

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• 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,

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• True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

  Robert Smith

  Eye, Past, Looks

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• True repentance is to cease from sin.

  Ambrose

  Sin, Repentance, Cease

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

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• True repentance does not permit repetition.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Doe, Repentance, Permit

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• 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”

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• True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Sorrow, Sin

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.332

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

  Rick Joyner

  Repentance, Has Beens, True Faith

  FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Aug 01, 2014

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• There are still people who insist that we have to preach on repentance. Well, I disagree! I think we should do it God’s way – preach the goodness of God and allow the goodness of God to lead people to repentance. Such repentance will be true repentance. It will not be motivated by the fear of judgment and indignation. It will be a genuine repentance that is motivated by His grace, unconditional love and compassion. After all, our ability to love God stems from our first tasting His love for us.

  Joseph Prince

  Unconditional Love, Thinking, Compassion

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• True repentance always involves reform.

  Hosea Ballou

  Reform, Repentance

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• Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

  Pope Francis

  Light, Evil, Repentance

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• True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God's love.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Hate, Grief, Mercy Of God

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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• Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

  Thomas Brooks

  Too Late, Repentance, Never Too Late

  Thomas Brooks (1867). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.196

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• The Church is holy, although there are sinners within her. Those who sin, but who cleanse themselves with true repentance, do not keep the Church from being holy. But unrepentant sinners are cut off, whether visibly by Church authority, or invisible by the judgement of God, from the body of the Church. And so in this regard the Church remains holy.

  Patriarch Philaret of Moscow

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• True repentance also involves reform.

  Hosea Ballou

  Reform, Repentance

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• A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Suffering, Shame

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.250

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

  Lawana Blackwell

  Mean, Repentance, Making Amends

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

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