Repentance

As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways!Ezekiel 13:11 NIV

μετανοήσατε οὖν καὶ ἐπιστρέψατε πρὸς τὸ ἐξαλειφθῆναι ὑμῶν τὰς ἁμαρτίας.Repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out.Peter in Acts 3:19 NET Bible

— Repentance bible

Of my past wanderings the sole fruit is shame, And deep repentance, of the knowledge born That all we value in this world is naught.Petrarch, The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch, p. 117.

— Repentance knowledge

Duomo è il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono Scerne il dolor del fallo.To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. Vittorio Alfieri, Rosmunda, III. 1.

— Repentance man

I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmæ.Aulus Gellius, Book I, Chapter VI, 6; quoting Demosthenes to Lais.

— Repentance book

When iron scourge, and tortring hour The bad affright, afflict the best.Thomas Gray, Ode to Adversity. Same phrase the torturing hour in Campbell—Pleasures of Hope, Part I. Midsummer Nights Dream, Act V, scene 1.

— Repentance hope

Thomas Gray, Ode to Adversity. Same phrase the torturing hour in Campbell—Pleasures of Hope, Part I. Midsummer Nights Dream, Act V, scene 1.

— Repentance hope

Woman, amends may never come too late.Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glass for London and England.

— Repentance men

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, Itll spring up and glow, like—like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.John Masefield, Widow in the Bye Street, Part VI.

— Repentance god

Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.The dream is short, repentance long. Friedrich Schiller, Lied von der Glocke.

— Repentance dream

But with the morning cool repentance came.Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Chapter XII. The Monastery, Chapter III. Note 11. But with the morning cool reflection came. In Chronicles of Canongate, Chapter IV. Calm substituted for cool in The Antiquary, Chapter V.

— Repentance reflection

Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Chapter XII. The Monastery, Chapter III. Note 11. But with the morning cool reflection came. In Chronicles of Canongate, Chapter IV. Calm substituted for cool in The Antiquary, Chapter V.

— Repentance reflection

Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via. Quem pœnitet peccasse, pæne est innocens.It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent. Seneca the Younger, Agamemnon. 242.

— Repentance sin

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

— Repentance sin

Nec unquam primi consilii deos pœnitet.God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis, VI. 23.

— Repentance god

Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post pœniteat.Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. Syrus, Maxims.

— Repentance you

And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return.Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I, Hymn 88.

— Repentance spiritual

There is one case of death-bed repentance recorded — the penitent thief — that no one should despair; and only one, that no one should presume.Augustine of Hippo, p. 511.

— Repentance death

Come back then, O, them prodigal, to thy Father. Quit thy sad folly and emptiness, thy reproaches of soul, thy diseased longings, and thy restless sighs. Return again to thy God, and give thyself to Him in a final and last sacrifice. Conquer again, as Christ will help you, the original love, in that to abide and rest.Horace Bushnell, p. 510.

— Repentance love

Of all acts is not, for a man, repentance the most divine? The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.Thomas Carlyle, p. 505.

— Repentance man

It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct.Theodore L. Cuyler, p. 507.

— Repentance art

No man ever truly repented, and turned away from all his sins, until by faith he accepted the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ upon the cross.Henry Darling, p. 507.

— Repentance faith

Holy practice is the most decisive evidence of the reality of our repentance.Bring forth fruits meet for repentance.Jonathan Edwards, p. 509.

— Repentance war

Nor alms, nor deeds, that I have done, Can for a single sin atone; To Calvary alone I flee; O God! be merciful to me.Cornelius Elven, p. 510.

— Repentance god

Place not thy amendment only in increasing thy devotion, but in bettering thy life. This is the damning hypocrisy of this age; that it slights all good morality, and spends its zeal in matters of ceremony, and a form of godliness without the power of it.Richard Fuller, p. 508.

— Repentance life

My Saviour, mid lifes varying scene Be Thou my stay; Guide me, through each perplexing path, To perfect day. In weakness and in sin I stand; Still faith can clasp Thy mighty hand, And follow at Thy dear command. My Saviour, I have nought to bring Worthy of Thee; A broken heart Thou wilt not spurn; Accept of me. I need Thy righteousness Divine, I plead Thy promises as mine, I perish if I am not Thine.Elizabeth A. E. Godwin, p. 508.

— Repentance life

With the blood of Christ to wash away the darkest guilt, and the Spirit of God to sanctify the vilest, and strengthen the weakest nature, I despair of none. Too late! It is never too late. Even old age, tottering to the grave beneath the weight of seventy years and a great load of guilt, may retrace its steps and begin life anew. Hope falls like a sunbeam on the hoary head. I have seen the morning rise cold and gloomy, and the sky grow thicker, and the rain fall faster as the hours wore on; yet, ere he set in night, the sun, bursting through heavy clouds, has broken out to illumine the landscape and shed a flood of glory on the dying day.Thomas Guthrie, p. 510.

— Repentance life

Repentance does not consist in one single act of sorrow, though that, being the first and leading act, gives denomination to the whole; but in doing works meet for repentance, in a sincere obedience to the law of Christ for the remainder of our lives.John Locke, p. 507.

— Repentance work

While repentance is indispensable to eternal life, we are not to regard it in the light of a price paid for its possession. It is not an expiatory grace, or a compensation for moral indebtedness.George C. Lorimer, p. 505.

— Repentance life

Not all the drops the human eye can shed will ever quench the fires or blot out the guilt of sin. Do not, I pray you, be deceived on this point; do not permit yourselves to harbor the delusion that the rain-showers from your beclouded eyes can ever fertilize the barren soul, and cause it to blossom as the rose.George C. Lorimer, p. 506.

— Repentance soul

The Scriptural doctrine in regard to repentance is not, that a man must repent in order to his being qualified to go to Christ; it is rather, that he must go to Christ in order to his being able to repent. From Him comes the grace of contrition as well as the cleansing of expiation.Henry Melvill, p. 506.

— Repentance grace

The law stops every mans mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.Dwight L. Moody, p. 506.

— Repentance god

Repentance is getting out of one train and getting into the other. You are in the wrong train; you are in the broad path that takes you down to the pit of hell. Get out of it to-day. Right-about-face.Dwight L. Moody, p. 507.

— Repentance hell

Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit; And not commit those sins thou hast bewailed. He that bewails, and not forsakes them too, Confesses rather what he means to do.Francis Quarles, p. 509.

— Repentance sin

A heart renewed — a loving heart — a penitent and humble heart — a heart broken and contrite, purified by love — that and only that is the rest of men. Spotlessness may do for angels, repentance unto life is the highest that belongs to man.Frederick William Robertson, p. 508.

— Repentance love

Perhaps yours is a very remorseful past — a foolish, frivolous, disgraceful, frittered past. Well, Christ says,My servant, be sad, but no languor; there is work to be done forme yet — rise up, be going! Oh, my brethren, Christ takes your wretched remnants of life — the feeble pulses of a heart which has spent its best hours not for Him, but for self and for enjoyment, and in His strange love He condescends to accept them.Frederick William Robertson, p. 510.

— Repentance love

It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it is an infinite evil. It is one thing to mourn for it because it is injurious to ourselves; another, to mourn for it because it is offensive to God. It is one thing to be terrified; another, to be humbled.Gardiner Spring, p. 506.

— Repentance god

The true penitent sees that he has broken Gods holy law, and resisted the claims of his rightful Sovereign. The thought that most deeply affects him is, that he has sinned against Gvd. In comparison with this, his other crimes vanish to nothing. The language of his heart is,Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned.Gardiner Spring, p. 507.

— Repentance god

True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered Gods love.William Mackergo Taylor, p. 506.

— Repentance love

True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin and broken from sin.William Thornton, p. 505.

— Repentance art

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