REPENTANCE QUOTES II
quotations about repentance
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
The sinning is the best part of repentance.
ANONYMOUS
It is a great deal easier to commit a second sin, than it was to commit the first; and a great deal harder to repent of a second, than it was to repent of the first.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Some often repent yet never reform; they resemble a man travelling a dangerous path who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
He that does not repent, sins again.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Moreover, true repentance never exists except in conjunction with faith, while on the other hand, wherever there is true faith, there is also real repentance. The two are but different aspects of the same turning--a turning away from sin in the direction of God.
LOUIS BERKHOF
Systematic Theology
The 'I', the 'self' of the child of God, is born in the midst of the ruins of repented idolatry.
JAMES ALISON
Faith Beyond Resentment
It is good for a man to repent of his sins; but better for him had he never sinned.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
Remorse is the poison of life, and repentance its cure.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN
Palamon and Arcite
How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?
CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI
The Mistress of Spices
There is a repentance unto death; the regret for having sinned, springing from no other cause than horror of sin's punishment, is many a time felt very dreadfully on the bed of death by the ungodly who are dying in their sins.
RALPH WARDLAW
attributed, Day's Collacon
He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence renews the racket, not repentance.
OGDEN NASH
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Repentance is purgative; fear not the working of this pill.
THOMAS WATSON
The Doctrine of Repentance
Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
JOHN ORTBERG, JR.
The Me I Want to Be
Oh, the air is sultry and pregnant with lightning.
And therefore we call to our deluded brothers: Repent, repent, the Kingdom of the Lord is at hand!
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
"The Reaction in Germany"
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Jesus calls all sinners to repent. True repentance is not a nebulous response of sorrow; it requires definite actions. Repentance so transforms the mind that it results in a changed life. Repentance does not merely say "I'm sorry" (similar to what we say when we accidentally step on someone's foot). Rather, true repentance says from the heart, "I've been wrong and grieve over my sin, but now I see the truth, and I will change my ways accordingly."
JOEL R. BEEKE
Why Christ Came: 31 Meditations on the Incarnation
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J. C. MACAULAY
attributed, Quote Unquote
Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God; not some one bare act of change, but a lasting, durable state of new life, which is called regeneration.
HENRY HAMMOND
attributed, Day's Collacon