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It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. It's all about love!
The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.
The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.
God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.
When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.
Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.
Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.
Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.
Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.
When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.
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.
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.
Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.
Repentance is a thing that cannot be trifled with every day. Daily transgression and daily repentance is not that which is pleasing in the sight of God.
The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.
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.
Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.
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.
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
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.
Peace is the precious fruit of a righteous life. It is possible because of the Atonement of the Savior. It is earned through full repentance, for that leads to refreshing forgiveness.
I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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.
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.