The person who hears Christian teaching, and practices what they hear, is like a “wise man who built his house on a rock.” They do not content themselves with listening to exhortations to repent, believe in Christ, and live a holy life. They actually repent. They actually believe. They actually cease to do evil, learn to do well, abhor that which is sinful, and cleave to that which is good. They are a doer as well as a hearer.
– JC Ryle –
To do so no more is the truest repentance.
– Martin Luther –
The Gospel is concerned with a new life, with a birth upward onto a new level of being, and until it is effected such a rebirth it has not done a saving work within the soul.
– AW Tozer –
from God’s Pursuit of Man
I bet you there will be people in hell saying, “I thought there was no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.”
– GA Jarquin –
I’m not an erudite [educated] man, but I only have one message. Repent. That’s it. Now I can sit down.
– Ray Greenley –
We sometimes talk about the price of revival, and we need to be very careful as to what we mean when we speak like this. We may place that price so high that we put revival right beyond the reach of the ordinary run of mortals. Maybe that is our way of attempting to justify God, that He has not yet, apparently, given the revival His people need. … There is without doubt a price to be paid for revival, but it is not of necessity the long nights of prayer or excruciating sacrifices, but of simply humbling pride to repent of sin.
– Roy Hession –
There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change …
– Andrew Murray –
Have you ever stood on the same plot of ground with the publican, crying — God be merciful to me a sinner?
– William Tiptaft –
Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and league with them.
– Matthew Henry –