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.
– George Whitefield –
Repentance
Two aspects of true repentance – Robert South
True repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.
– Robert South –
1634-1716
True conversion changes your life – Charles Spurgeon
If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of, and his conversion is a fiction.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Chief Dangers – William Booth
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
– William Booth –
Grieving over sin – AW Pink
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
– AW Pink –
Giving up rebellion – AW Tozer
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
– AW Tozer –
Being a Christian – Alexander MacLaren
The meaning of being a Christian is that in response for the gift of a whole Christ, I give my whole self to Him.
– Alexander MacLaren –
Choose God’s Kingdom – William Law
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
– William Law –
What true repentance is – JC Ryle
True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.
– JC Ryle –