Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.
Bad men are full of repentance.
I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.
Repentance means you change your mind so deeply that it changes you.
Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence.
Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.
There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.
It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
