A person repents when he comes to the place where he discovers that the will of God is the government of his life and the glory of God is the reason for his life. He only has repented who has changed his mind about his reason for being.
– Paris Reidhead –
Some bless themselves that they have a stock of knowledge, but what is knowledge good for without repentance? It is better to mortify one sin than to understand all mysteries.
– Thomas Watson –
Watch the kind of people that God brings around you, and you will be humiliated to find that this is His way of reviewing to you the kind of person you have been to Him.
– Oswald Chambers –
When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.
– Jim Elliot –
My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of men; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
– JC Ryle –
(1816-1900)
Confession must be voluntary. It must come as water out of a spring, freely. … true confession drops from the lips as myrrh from the tree or honey from the comb, freely. “I have sinned against heaven, and before thee” (Luke 15:18): the prodigal charged himself with sin before his father changed him with it.
– Thomas Watson –
The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received, into the mind, as I should receive a system of philosophy, or astronomy, but it represents Him as a real, living, mighty Savior, able to save me now.
– Catherine Booth –
David had one of the most blessed experiences in the world, and the blessedness was that he was miserable about his sin.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
There’s one thing we need above everything else; it’s something we don’t talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.
– Leonard Ravenhill –