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.
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.
If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.
Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.
If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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.
Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
Repentance is accepted remorse.
Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.
Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
Repentance comes from the heart.
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.
There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.
Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.
