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Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.

Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.

Forgiveness is as wide as repentance.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

O my Saviour, who am I, that Thou shouldst have so long awaited my repentance!

Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

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.

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong.

True repentance also involves reform.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

True repentance always involves reform.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kingdom; a thief at the door of death asked to die like a thief and steal Paradise. One would have thought a saint would have been the first soul purchased over the counter of Calvary by the red coins of Redemption, but in the Divine plan it was a thief who was the escort of the King of kings into Paradise. If Our Lord had come merely as a teacher, the thief would never have asked for forgiveness. But since the thief's request touched the reason of His coming to earth, namely, to save souls, the thief heard the immediate answer: 'I promise thee, this day thou shalt be With Me in Paradise' (Luke 23:43) It was the thief's last prayer, perhaps even his first. He knocked once, sought once, asked once, dared everything, and found everything. When even the disciples were doubting and only one was present at the Cross, the thief owned and acknowledged Him as Saviour.

...a guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul. Therefore, an age without a sense of sin, in which people are not even sorry for not being sorry for their sins, is in a serious predicament. Likewise an age with a Christianity so eager to forgive that it denies the need for forgiveness. For such an age, therefore, Lent can scarcely be too long!

All the pleasure of sin cannot be compared to the satisfaction with sweetness of life in the spirit.

All you need is grace.

A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so many great power pack man and women of God who lack wisdom.