sorrow for sin Quotes

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

Repentance is for little children.

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.

Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man.

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

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.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honor of the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.