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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.

  • Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

    Heart   Tree   Tears  
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.4071, e-artnow
  • 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.

    Moving   Grace   Would Be  
    Charles H. Spurgeon (2001). “The Soul-Winner”, p.8, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
  • Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

  • 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.

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

    Heart   Sorrow   Sin  
    Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.332
  • True repentance is to cease from sin.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 509, 1895.
  • True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

    Home   Grace   Despair  
    John Ortberg (2008). “When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box”, p.121, Zondervan
  • Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

    Thomas Brooks (1867). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.196
  • Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.

  • Faith in Jesus Christ and a testimony of Him and His universal Atonement is not just a doctrine with great theological value. Such faith is a universal gift, glorious for all cultural regions of this earth, irrespective of language, race, color, nationality, or socioeconomic circumstance. The powers of reason may be used to try to understand this gift, but those who feel its effects most deeply are those who are willing to accept its blessings, which come from a pure and clean life of following the path of true repentance and living the commandments of God.

    Jesus   Blessing   Race  
  • 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 (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”
  • 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.

  • 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 Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Sermons on Sin, Salvation, and Service”
  • Don't punish people who repent; heal them. I don't believe that private sin requires public rebuke or removal from office if repentance is taking place. However, when no evidence of true repentance exists, then discipline is in order.

    Believe   Order   Office  
    Ted Haggard, R. Lance Coles (1998). “The Life-giving Church”, Baker Publishing Group
  • True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong.

    FaceBook post by Rick Joyner from Aug 01, 2014
  • Admittedly, repentance is not always easy; I suppose it would not be true repentance if it were. It can also take a longer time than we think or hope. There can be missteps along the way, when we falter or lose heart, but we can reset our course and move forward again, even if it is only one small step at a time. As well as praying for forgiveness, we can also plead for courage, and it will come. If we do so, steady but surely, we will rise from the miry depths of sin and emerge into the sunny uplands of forgiveness and hope.

    Moving   Heart   Thinking  
  • 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.

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

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

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

    Evil   Suffering   Shame  
    William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.250
  • True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

    Eye   Past   Looks  
  • True repentance does not permit repetition.

    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”
  • True repentance always involves reform.

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

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

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

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

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

    Light   Evil   Repentance  
  • True repentance also involves reform.

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