[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.
True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.
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.
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.
Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.
True repentance also involves reform.
Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.
He that does not repent, sins again.
Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.
Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.
