quotes about Repentance
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A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
True repentance is to cease from sin.
-- AmbroseSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 509, 1895.
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Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.
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It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins
-- Augustus Hopkins StrongSource : Augustus Hopkins Strong (2014). “Systematic Theology : Volume II (Illustrated)”, p.323, Lulu Press, Inc
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Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.
-- Augustus TopladySource : Augustus Toplady (1794). “The Works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.250
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I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.
-- Aulus Gellius -
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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
-- Bayard Taylor -
Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
He that does not repent, sins again.
-- Benjamin WhichcoteSource : Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.100
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!
-- Billy Sunday -
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
-- Charles Simmons -
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 -
How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -
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Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.
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Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentance—that is, deep, heartâ€changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of life—takes place in the one being rebuked. Nor is reconciliation to be extended to someone who has not repented.
-- Dan B. AllenderSource : Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman (1992). “Bold love”, NavPress Publishing Group
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What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.
-- David DarkSource : David Dark (2009). “The Sacredness of Questioning Everything”, p.14, Zondervan
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Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance.
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There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.
-- Desmond HarringtonSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.
-- Edward Gibbon -
no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.
-- Ethel SmythSource : Ethel Smyth (1940). “What happened next”, Longmans, Green
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He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
-- Francis Quarles -
The depth of our repentance will determine the depth of our revival.
-- Frank Bartleman -
The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.
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To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.
-- Frederick William Robertson -
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You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance.
-- Henry R Brandt -
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.
-- Hosea Ballou -
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The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.
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If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.
-- Ibn Rajab -
There's no repentance in the grave.
-- Isaac WattsSource : 'Solemn Thoughts of God and Death' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)
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If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.
-- J. Golden KimballSource : J. Golden Kimball (2008). “J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons”, p.122, Latter-day Publishing
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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
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There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.
-- John Owen -
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The call of repentance is for the righteous and unrighteous, the godly and ungodly alike. If the righteous had been the lights they were called to be, the nation would never have fallen as it did.
-- Jonathan CahnSource : Jonathan Cahn (2012). “The Harbinger”, p.222, Charisma Media
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Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.
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Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.
-- Khurram Murad -
True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.
-- Lawana BlackwellSource : Lawana Blackwell (2008). “The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark (The Gresham Chronicles Book #3)”, p.437, Baker Books
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All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.
-- Martin Luther -
The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.
-- Mary Elizabeth Braddon -
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Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.
-- Ovid -
...God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance...
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Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
-- Publilius Syrus -
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When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.
-- Quentin L. Cook -
Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.
-- Richard G. Scott -
Peace is the precious fruit of a righteous life. It is possible because of the Atonement of the Savior. It is earned through full repentance, for that leads to refreshing forgiveness.
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True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong.
-- Rick Joyner -
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Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
-- Robert Herrick -
Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge.
-- Theodore M. Burton -
Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.
-- Thomas Sherlock -
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Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.
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God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. It's all about love!
-- Jennifer RothschildSource : Source: www.biblegateway.com
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If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.
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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 -