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Repent Quotes - Page 2

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

Giovanni Boccaccio
Repent, Enjoyed

If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.

Steven J Lawson
Needs, Repentance, Changed

All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.

Martin Luther
Christian, Life Is, Repentance

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

Moliere
Father, Son, Repentance
Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.247, Penguin

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.

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

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

Rick Joyner
Repentance, True Repentance, Has Beens
FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Aug 01, 2014

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Richard G. Scott
Punishment, Path, Repentance

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

C. S. Lewis
Needs, Good Person, Repent
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

O my Saviour, who am I, that Thou shouldst have so long awaited my repentance!

Margaret Mary Alacoque
Long, Repentance, Saviour

The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.

Democritus
Lost, Repent, Offenders

Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.

Augustus Toplady
Free Gifts, Holiness, Repentance
Augustus Toplady (1794). “The Works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.250

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

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

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

Ibn Taymiyyah
Causes, Sin, Repentance

We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!

Neal A. Maxwell
Forgiving, Lord, Repent

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

J. C. Ryle
Repentance, Evidence
J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.441, Editora Dracaena

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

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

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

True repentance is to cease from sin.

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

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

Thomas Sherlock
May, Sin, Repentance

To do so no more is the truest repentance.

Martin Luther
Repentance, Truest

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

Khurram Murad
Harvest, Repentance, Yearning

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

Isaac of Nineveh
Waste, Repentance, Vain

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”

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

J. I. Packer
Repentance, Moaning, Knows

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