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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.
Desmond Tutu
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Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.
Corrie Ten Boom
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Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
John Calvin
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True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.
Lawana Blackwell
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Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
Anselm of Canterbury
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Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentanceāthat is, deep, heartāchanging acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of lifeātakes place in the one being rebuked. Nor is reconciliation to be extended to someone who has not repented.
Dan B. Allender
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The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.
Frank Bartleman
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If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.
J. Golden Kimball
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If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.
Steven J Lawson
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
Moliere
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All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.
Martin Luther
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Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.
Richard G. Scott
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True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong.
Rick Joyner
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Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.
Augustus Toplady
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Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
John Calvin
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Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause
Ibn Taymiyyah
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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
J. C. Ryle
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Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.
Khurram Murad
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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 Spurgeon
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Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.
Charles Spurgeon
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Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.
Thomas Sherlock
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This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.
Isaac of Nineveh
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The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.
Howard W. Hunter
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True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.
C. S. Lewis
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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
J. I. Packer
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True repentance is to cease from sin.
Ambrose
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There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.
John Owen
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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.
Jonathan Cahn
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To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
Vittorio Alfieri
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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.
William Taylor
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For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
Charles Simmons
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You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance.
Henry R Brandt
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When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.
Quentin L. Cook
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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
Oscar Wilde
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Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle
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Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.
Thomas Brooks