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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.

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

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.

Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance.

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

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

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 is but want of power to sin.

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.

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

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

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

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.

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.

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

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

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

True repentance also involves reform.

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.

True repentance is to cease from sin.

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.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

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

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

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

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

A backslider, if there be a spark of life left in him will groan after restoration. No man can be renewed without as real and true a manifestation of the Holy Spirit's energy as he felt at first,

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

All you need is grace.

...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!

A man needs his suffering to overcome sin.

A man with wisdom will always have a solution no matter how big his challenges may be. Wisdom makes you a problem solver.

A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind

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.

An arrogant laughs at repentance.

Any attempt to reduce the Bible to a guidebook for how to live is not only wrong, it's also idolatrous. It replaces Christ at the center with something else, with moralism. The point of the Word, the goal of Christianity, is not to teach you how to be a good person, or a good man. The goal is repentance and forgiveness, given freely to sinners, because of the substitutionary death of the God-man, Jesus.

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.

A repentant criminal is better than a self-righteous judge.

At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims of the cemetary soil; waiting to become eternal people in fellowship for God. I know there is another fellowship in heaven!

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.

Any sin we commit is outside the body accept sexual act.

A repentant sinner is better than a proud saint.

A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.

Atikraman’ [aggression through thoughts, speech or action] happens naturally. To do 'pratikraman' is our own spiritual effort (purusharth).

Be careful how you live your life, there is judgement.

Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves.