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401 Repentance quotes by 257 unique authors

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it… — C.S. Lewis
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… — Charles Spurgeon
The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance. — Sinclair B. Ferguson
There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. — Oscar Wilde
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
Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus… — Boyd K. Packer
Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true. — Thomas Brooks
Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance. — LeCrae
God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the… — Alan Redpath
As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance. — C.S. Lewis
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of… — Samuel Johnson
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… — J I Packer
Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change. — J I Packer
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. — Henry Ward Beecher
Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce. — Charles Spurgeon
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… — J C Ryle
No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. — J C Ryle
Let us beware of repentance without evidence. — J C Ryle
If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to… — J C Ryle
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
The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians. — Charles Spurgeon
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. — Charles Spurgeon
Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and… — J I Packer
Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all… — Pope Benedict XVI

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