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There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.

There is grace for forgiveness.

There is hope for the sinner to be made a saint.

There is grace for every soul.

There is forgiveness for every soul.

There is no Christianity unless first there is repentance. And it is not just, “Well, I am guilty.” It is not just a conviction. It is a conviction plus a desire to turn away from those things.

There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward.

There is no more confused message that you and I could give to a lost and dying world than to live in sin and at the same time to tell people about the transforming power of Jesus Christ. There isn't a more confusing thing we can do to our kids and the generation behind us, to this world. God will not use a compromised life to reach a compromised world. God will use a life that is given over to Him, that is a demonstration of the message that through the power of Jesus Christ and His love He can transform our lives and set us free.

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

There is salvation for every soul.

There's supposed to be more value in your life than spending more than sixty hours in a week in a place you don't care about and in an environment they don't care about you.

The righteousness of God's grace leads to repentance.

The righteous God promotes the cause of righteousness.

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.

The spirit of contrition and repentance has by and large become foreign to us. Repentance implies a turning to God. Instead of repenting, however, we demand that God adjust to our modern concepts. Because the spirit of contrition and repentance is missing, church services , evangelizations and other Christian meetings often lack power and cannot move the listeners to tears of contrition. How very much we, the members of the Body of Christ, have hardened our hearts! We no longer want to see sin for what it is. When God is dishonoured and blasphemed and His commandments are abandoned, we do not regard it as such. Nor do we see that when God Himself is declared dead in His Church and His commandments are no longer regarded as binding, these are the signs of the times that Jesus said we should watch for.

The very first evidence of awakening grace is dissatisfaction with one's self and self-effort and a longing for deliverance from chains of sin that have bound the soul. To own frankly that I am lost and guilty is the prelude to life and peace. It is not a question of a certain depth of grief and sorrow, but simply the recognition and acknowledgment of need that lead one to turn to Christ for refuge. None can perish who put their trust in Him. His grace superabounds above all our sin, and His expiatory work on the cross is so infinitely precious to God that it fully meets all our uncleanness and guilt.

The unspiritual is a slave to sin.…! But spiritual is slave to righteousness in Christ Jesus.

... the transition from lost to found is never an easy one. It is never easy to be a prodigal son -- or daughter. It is never easy to say, 'I will arise and go to my father ...' (Luke 15:18, 19). This is never easy, because it is not until our situation becomes completely hopeless that we can humble ourselves to the extent of admitting that such a gross mistake was our own.

The Turk is the rod of the wrath of the Lord our God. . . If the Turk's god, the devil, is not beaten first, there is reason to fear that the Turk will not be so easy to beat. . . Christian weapons and power must do it. . . (The fight against the Turks) must begin with repentance, and we must reform our lives, or we shall fight in vain. (The Church should) drive men to repentance by showing our great and numberless sins and our ingratitude, by which we have earned God's wrath and disfavor, so that He justly gives us into the hands of the devil and the Turk.

The world is full of problems and I bet you the problems will continue to exist but what will make you relevant to the world is when you have answers to the questions the world asks. You can only be useful when you have the answers to the questions of the world. The best way you provide solutions and answers to those challenges is through wisdom.

The words that we speak, they come forth even when we do not wish to. The prakruti [our relative self] dances and such a storm arises. It is only when countless ‘pratikraman’ is done, will the prakruti stop!

The words 'believe' and 'repent' are now largely replaced by other terms such as "Give your life to Christ', 'Open your heart to Christ', 'Do it now', 'Surrender completely', 'Decide for Christ', etc., and in similar language those who profess conversion are sometimes represented as having 'given in'.

The world is existing on which basis? It is the mistake of atikraman (aggression through thoughts, speech or action). There is no problem with kraman (neutral or natural action, actions that do not have any good or bad implications), but if atikraman occurs, then you have to do ‘pratikraman’ for it.

This figure upon the Cross is not a MVD agent or a Gestapo inquisitor, but a Divine Physician, Who only asks that we bring our wounds to Him in order that He may heal them. If our sins be as scarlet, they shall be washed white as snow, and if they be as red as crimson, they shall be made white as wool. Was it not He Who told us, “I say to you, that even so there shall be more joy in Heaven upon one sinner that doth penance than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance” (Luke 15:7)? In the story of the prodigal, did He not describe the Father as saying, “Let us eat and make merry: because this my son was dead and is come to life again; was lost and is found” (Luke 15:23, 24)? Why is there more joy in Heaven for the repentant sinner than for the righteous? Because God’s attitude is not judgment but love. In judgment, one is not as joyful after doing wrong as before; but in love, there is joy because the danger and worry of losing that soul is past. He who is sick is loved more than he who is well, because he needs it more. Some will feign sickness to solicit love and pretend wounds that the beloved may bind them.

They may call you "Stupid" because of what you've done in the past. Hey, you are going to be "Prominent" because of what the Lord has done. The stupid "S" in Saul was exchange to become the Prominent "P" in Paul... and you ask why? It's because of what the Lord has done, Give thanks!

They view repentance as the thing they have to do in order to earn forgiveness, therefore the more difficult they make it, the more credit they tally up.

To be set free, turn away from your sins. And return to God of great mercy.

This sin weighs heavily upon the Body of Christ and will call down the judgment of God. In Germany there is an even greater sin weighing upon us Christians and that is the crime our nation has committed against Israel, God's chosen people. Six million Jews were killed; because of this the wrath of God is upon us. As Christians we are especially to blame. For when the terrible crime occurred and millions of Jews were tortured with inhuman cruelty and killed at the hands of German people, the Church in our country remained silent. The Christians did not stand up as the Danes did and protest the injustice. With the exception of a number of individuals the church members were not driven by the desire to help the Jews at all costs. Nor did they ring the church bells the night the synagogues were burnt down. The Church gave no reaction - an indication that she was dead. Because we were silent, we heaped guilt upon ourselves, and we were struck by the judgment that later descended upon our nation. Our churches were destroyed. Germans were killed by the thousands in bombings. Refugees thronged the streets, and the Iron Curtain divided our country.

Those small moments of pleasure men get from sin, from defying God, are perhaps grace - His final gift still to those who hard-heartedly choose to deny Him. Godless men may blatantly enjoy offending God not because they are free-spirited, but on the whole because He moves them to enjoy it. Sin is, in a sense, still touching God: for a strike involves a touch. Perhaps this is His divine kindness. Faithful men find everlasting fulfillment in His good company; but godless men who strike at the Author of Joy, who are completely ignorant of the greater, for them - and by God's love for His enemies - there is yet this small recoil known as 'pleasure' before the fall.

Those who refuse His mercy satisfy His justice in another way. Without His mercy, they cannot love Him. Without love for Him they cannot be 'justified' or 'made just'. That is to say: they cannot conform to Him Who is love. Those who have not received His mercy are in a state of injustice with regard to Him. It is their own injustice that is condemned by His justice. And in what does their injustice consist? In the refusal of His mercy. We come, in the end, to this basic paradox: that we owe it to God to receive from Him the mercy that is offered to us in Christ, and that to refuse this mercy is the summation of our 'injustice'. Clearly, then, only the mercy of God can make us just, in this supernatural sense, since the primary demand of God's justice upon us is that we receive His mercy.

Those who require mercy shouldn’t desire the judgment of others.

Thus the penitent are actually sincere, truthful and realistic. They sorrow for their sins before it it too late, unlike others who neglect to do so and will be sorry for their sins for all eternity. They are grieved over their sins now, so that they can turn over a new leaf and begin to lead a new and different life.

Through understanding of God way's of grace, a man find grace to turn away from evil.

To be spiritually alive is to live in repentance. Spiritually dead are those Christians who never weep over their sins or who have long ceased to do so. Dead - in God's eyes - are those Christians who can no longer rejoice over God's forgiveness. Whenever this joy is missing, even if we may call ourselves committed Christians, there is something wrong in our lives.

This is the worst thing about poisons and deadly sins - that we enjoy them.

Those who don’t understand what you are going through will repent in time, as they will inevitably go through something similar.

Thou mayest reach Heaven only by the mercy of the fallen.

Throw my heart Against the flint and hardness of my fault: Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, And finish all foul thoughts.

To share out your soul freely, that is what metanoia (a change of mind, or repentance)really refers to: a mental product of love. A change of mind, or love for the undemonstrable. And you throw off every conceptual cloak of self-defense, you give up the fleshly resistance of your ego. Repentance has nothing to do with self-regarding sorrow for legal transgressions. It is an ecstatic erotic self-emptying. A change of mind about the mode of thinking and being.

To return to God in repentance leads to rebirth.

To repent is to depart from evil.

To reject the Word of God is forsake the holy grace.

To teach men that they possess the ability to turn from sin when they choose to do so is to hide the true extent of their need.

True leaders apply law and grace, for those who only apply only law have little influence and those who apply only grace do not influence properly.

True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything".

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlook, but now he commanded all men everywhere to repent." Acts 17: 30

True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.

Une fois qu'il a reçu la rémission de ses péchés, l'homme ne doit donc plus faillir, parce que la première pénitence, celle d*s fautes qui souillèrent la vie de paganisme, c'est-à-dire la vie d'ignorance, est la meilleure. Elle est proposée à ceux qui ont été appelés comme purification de l'âme pour y établir la foi. Mais le Seigneur qui lit dans le secret des cœurs et connait l'avenir, a prévu d'en haut et dès le commencement l'inconstance de l'homme, son penchant aux rechutes, elles artifices du démon. Il n'ignore pas que l'ange du mal, jaloux de ce que l'homme jouit du privilège de la rémission des péchés, suggérera des occasions de faillir aux serviteurs de Dieu, et que sa malice leur tendra habilement des pièges pour 152 les entrainer dans sa ruine. Dieu l'a prédit, et dans l'abondance de sa miséricorde, il a fait don d'une seconde pénitence aux enfants de la foi qui viendraient à tomber ; afin que si la faiblesse, cédant à la force ou à la séduction, se laissait tenter, elle reçût une seconde pénitence, celle après laquelle il n'y a plus de pénitence. « Car, si nous péchons volontairement après avoir reçu la connaissance de la vérité, il n'y a plus désormais de victime pour les péchés, mais il ne nous reste qu'une attente terrible du jugement, et le feu vengeur qui dévorera les ennemis de Dieu. » Ceux dont les pénitences et les fautes se succèdent continuellement ne diffèrent en rien de ceux qui n'ont pas encore la foi, sinon qu'ils ont péché avec connaissance de cause. Et je ne sais ce qu'il y a de plus funeste, ou de pécher sciemment, ou de se repentir de ses péchés et d'y retomber de nouveau ; des deux côtés la faute est évidente. Ici, pendant l'acte même, l'iniquité est condamnée par l'ouvrier de l'iniquité ; là, l'auteur du péché le connait avant de le commettre, et pourtant il s'y livre avec la conviction que c'est un mal. L'un se fait l'esclave de la colère et du plaisir, n'ignorant pas à quels penchants il s'abandonne ; l'autre qui, après s'être repenti de ses vices, se replonge de nouveau dans la volupté, touche de près à celui qui, dès le principe, pèche volontairement; faire succéder au repentir d'un péché. l'acte de ce même pèche, tout en le condamnant, n'est-ce pas le commettre avec connaissance de cause ? Celui donc d'entre les gentils qui, de sa vie antérieure et profane, a pris son vol vers la foi, a obtenu d'un seul coup la rémission de tous ses péchés. Mais celui qui, pécheur relapse, s'est ensuite repenti, lors même qu'il obtient son pardon, doit rougir de honte, comme n'étant plus lavé par les eaux baptismales pour la rémission des péchés. Car il faut qu'il renonce, non-seulement aux idoles dont il se faisait auparavant des dieux, mais encore aux œuvres de sa vie antérieure, l'homme qui est né à la foi, non du sang ni de la volonté de la chair, mais qui a été régénéré dans l'esprit; ce qui arrivera si, fidèle à ne pas retomber dans le même péché, il se repent avec sincérité.

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repentance and revival.

Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain.