True Repentance Quotes

True Repentance Quote of the day

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

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

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

True repentance is to cease from sin.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

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.

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

True repentance does not permit repetition.

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

True repentance also involves reform.

True repentance always involves reform.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.