Repentance

Delay is the devil’s great net. All men mean to repent. Alas! they will repent one day that they did not repent at once.

Crowding To Touch The Savior, Volume 14, Sermon #841 - Mark 3:10

Charles Spurgeon

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.

Dwight L. Moody

He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hath not promised to preserve our lives till we repent.

Francis Quarles

For God’s kindness leads us towards repentance (4b). That is its goal. It is intended to give us space in which to repent, not to give us an excuse for sinning.6

John Stott

1201I learn from the Scriptures that repentance is just as necessary to salvation as faith is, and the faith that has not repentance going with it will have to be repented of.—46.246

Charles Spurgeon

Many persons who appear to repent are like sailors who throw their goods overboard in a storm, and wish for them again in a clam.

Anonymous

9605 To repent is to alter one’s way of looking at life; it is to take God’s point of view instead of one’s own.

Anonymous

When you fail do not let Satan tempt you to discouragement, but come and cast yourself on Christ. Faith and repentance are not one-time acts; you must live your life believing and repenting.

Richard Sibbes

We do not repent in order that God may love us, but He reveals to us His love in order that we may repent.

Ellen Gould White

It is not the judgment of God that leads men to repentance, but the goodness of God; but Israel did not repent.

Warren W. Wiersbe

God gives you faith, but you must believe. God gives you repentance, but you must repent.

The Commissariat Of The Universe, Volume 55, Sermon #3149 - Psalm 104:28

Charles Spurgeon

That faith which is not accompanied by repentance will have to be repented of!

The Plumb Line, Volume 50, Sermon #2904 - Amos 7:7, 8

Charles Spurgeon

The man who only repents of this and that glaring offense, has not repented of sin at all.

Two Essential Things, Volume 35, Sermon #2073 - Acts 20:21

Charles Spurgeon

You are not living to God as you ought unless you repent daily.

Charles Spurgeon

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his deathbed.

Hannah More

The word repent means “to change one’s mind and act on that change.” John was not satisfied with regret or remorse; he wanted “fruits meet for repentance” (Matt. 3:8). There had to be evidence of a changed mind and a changed life.

Warren W. Wiersbe

Jesus’ call to repent is not a caustic reprimand but an invitation to switch allegiances.

David E. Garland

Jesus is not saying that such people were simply to be accepted as they stand. Sinners must repent. The lost sheep and lost coin are found. The prodigal son comes to his senses and returns home. But Jesus has a different idea to his critics of what ‘repentance’ means.

N. T. Wright

After God makes us alive, then we must become involved. We must believe, repent, and seek after the things of God. But before God makes us alive, we are unable to do these things. We need God to take the initiative to change the disposition of our hearts, quickening our souls so that we can respond by embracing Christ and fleeing to Him in repentance.

R. C. Sproul

551I hear someone murmur, “God will not give grace to men who do not repent.”

God gives men grace to repent, and no man ever repents till grace, first is given him to lead him to repentance.

“But God will not give his grace to those who won’t believe,” says another.

I reply, God gives grace to men by which they are moved to believe. It is through the grace of God that they are brought to faith in Christ.—27.183

Charles Spurgeon

We are not born again by repentance or faith or conversion: we repent and believe because we have been born again.

John Murray

12    To repent literally means to change the way we think. Thus, repentance is sometimes described as “coming to our senses.”

Ken Sande

The Peacemaker (1991)

Ken Sande

Hell is not filled with people who have learned their lesson. It is filled with people who still refuse to repent.

D. A. Carson

9609 You cannot repent too soon because you do not know how soon it may be too late.

Thomas Fuller

When a person becomes a Christian, the repentant sinner becomes a repenting saint.

John Blanchard

It’s easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.

Unknown

Prepare and prevent instead of repair and repent.

Anonymous

This is not because we can merit mercy by mercy or forgiveness by forgiveness, but because we cannot receive the mercy and forgiveness of God unless we repent, and we cannot claim to have repented of our sins if we are unmerciful towards the sins of others.

John Stott

If we lose our time to repent, we shall repent for ever that we once lost our time.

Thomas Adams

More have repented speech than silence.

Anonymous

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day.

Charles Spurgeon

We do not repent in order to be saved, but we repent because we are saved. We do not loathe sin and, therefore, hope to be saved, but, because we are saved, we therefore loathe sin and turn altogether from it. Mistaken Notions About Repentance, Volume 47, Sermon #2743 - Ezekiel 36:21

Charles Spurgeon

When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said ‘Repent’ he called for the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.

Martin Luther

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. Morning And Evening, Page 574

Charles Spurgeon

If we put off repentance another day, we have a day more to repent of, and a day less to repent.

Anonymous

Man is born with his back toward God. When he truly repents, he turns right around and faces God. Repentance is a change of mind…. Repentance is the tear in the eye of faith.

Dwight L. Moody