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Tag Name "Repentance" (265)

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REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
Ambrose Bierce
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Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.
Charles Spurgeon
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration.
D. Todd Christofferson
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Repentance is for little children.
Adolf Eichmann
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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.
Hannah More
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Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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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 is another name for aspiration.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Repentance is a gift of God's grace.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Repentance for past crimes is just and easy but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
John Vanbrugh
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Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J. C. Macaulay
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Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness.
Theodore M. Burton
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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.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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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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Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
Thomas Watson, Jr.
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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 is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.
James MacDonald
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Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.
Timothy Keller
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Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
Lew Wallace
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Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
Philip Yancey
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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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Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.
Mark Driscoll
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
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