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Repentance Quotes

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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

Authors on Repentance Quotes: Charles Spurgeon Spencer W. Kimball Publilius Syrus Benjamin Whichcote Hosea Ballou Richard G. Scott Thomas Brooks Samuel Johnson John Calvin Honore de Balzac Martin Luther Theodore M. Burton Friedrich Schiller Michel de Montaigne Ambrose Charles Simmons Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ezra Taft Benson Rabindranath Tagore Joseph Smith, Jr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Isaac of Nineveh Aulus Gellius Khem Veasna Frederick William Robertson Decimus Laberius Ibn Taymiyyah Miguel de Unamuno Anatole France Frank Bartleman Bayard Taylor J. C. Ryle Josh Billings
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God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance.
Paul the Apostle

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Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God.
Charles Grandison Finney

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Repentance is for little children.
Adolf Eichmann

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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 repentanceā€”that is, deep, heartā€changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of lifeā€”takes 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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Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.
D. Todd Christofferson

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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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Repentance is the vomit of the soul.
Thomas Brooks

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

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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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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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This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.
Isaac of Nineveh

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To do so no more is the truest repentance.
Martin Luther

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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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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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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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There's no repentance in the grave.
Isaac Watts

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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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True repentance does not permit repetition.
Spencer W. Kimball

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You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance.
Henry R Brandt

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To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.
Frederick William Robertson

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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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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
Bayard Taylor

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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