 Many think they repent when it is not the offense but the penalty that troubles them. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: The One Thing Necessary |
| A believer puts on the sackcloth of contrition, for having put off the garment of perfection. As the sugar loaf is dissolved, and weeps itself way, when dipped in wine; so do our hearts melt under a sense of divine love. Author: William Secker |
| We understand why in the Bible repentance precedes faith. Before people find their need -- love met in God, they are looking to other things, often money, for satisfaction. So believing in God has to involve a 180-degree turn away (that is, repentance) from the love of money to find contentment and confidence for the future simply in knowing God and depending on His promises. Author: Daniel Fuller
Source: The Unity of the Bible |
| Repentance is not a merely intellectual change of mind or mere grief, still less doing penance, but a radical transformation of the entire person, a fundamental turnaround involving mind and action and including overtones of grief, which result in (spiritual) fruit. Author: D.A. Carson
Source: Matthew, The Expositor's Bible Commentary |
| Just as the angel's announcement to Joseph declared Jesus' primary purpose to be to save His people from their sins, so the first announcement of the kingdom (delivered by John the Baptist) is associated with repentance and confession of sin. Author: D.A. Carson
Source: Matthew, The Expositor's Bible Commentary |
| The coming of God's reign either demands repentance or brings judgment. Author: D.A. Carson
Source: Matthew, The Expositor's Bible Commentary |
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| 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. Author: J.I. Packer
Source: Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, InterVarsity Press p. 71. |
| Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change. Author: J.I. Packer
Source: Marks of Revival, Revival Commentary, v. 1, n. 1. |
| Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and league with them. Author: Matthew Henry
Source: Commentary, 1 Samuel 24:16. |
| Repentance, not proper behaviour or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue. Author: Philip Yancey
Source: What's So Amazing About Grace? |
| 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. Author: Curtis Hutson |
| I think there are many who would like to be saved but have been presented the faulty idea that repentance is turning from sin and therefore they are convinced that they cannot be saved. Oh, if we would only make salvation plain and explain to men that we are not saved by doing anything; rather we are saved by trusting in what Jesus has already done. Author: Curtis Hutson |
