“God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.” – Augustine1
“God cannot fix whoever is first not broken.” – Jack Wellman
“It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.” – Alan Redpath
“People who cover their faults and excuse themselves do not have a repentant spirit.” – Watchman Nee
“The Christian who has stopped repenting has stopped growing.” – A. W. Pink
“A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Many think they repent when it is not the offense but the penalty that troubles them.” – Thomas Watson
“There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.” – George Mueller
“There is no doubt that all men from Adam on have had to repent in order to have a right relationship with God. The importance of repentance is demonstrated by the fact that men of every biblical age preached it.” – Curtis Hutson
“Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.” – Francis Quarles
“This is a work which must occur at the hour of new birth-and it does happen then in the form of repentance. The original definition of repentance is none else than ‘a change of mind.’” – Watchman Nee
“Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you’ve reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.” – Billy Sunday
“The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.” – Martin Luther
“Repentance is a grace, and must have its daily operation, as well as other graces. A true penitent must go on from faith to faith, from strength to strength; he must never stand still or turn back. True repentance is a continued spring, where the waters of godly sorrow are always flowing. ‘My sin is ever before me.’” – Thomas Brooks
“Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.” – Thomas Watson
“Repentance is mentioned seventy times in the New Testament . . . the Bible says God commands repentance . . . it is a command . . . God says, ‘Repent! Or perish!’” – Billy Graham
“It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.” – A. W. Pink
“Christ’s atonement fully satisfied the demands of God’s righteousness, so forgiveness and mercy are guaranteed to those who receive Christ in humble, repentant faith.” – John MacArthur
“Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.” – D. L. Moody
“True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation – in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace – in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.” – J. C. Ryle
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