QUOTES on REPENTANCE
"The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation."
- Martin Luther
"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."
- Matthew Henry
"I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed:
perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."
- C.S. Lewis
"Sins must be treated progressively one by one until all have been
eliminated." - Watchman Nee
"Because it has been so united with the devil it is vital for man to
receive from God a change of mind before he can receive a new heart."
- Watchman Nee
"Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace."
- Philip Yancey
"Have you ever stood on the same plot of ground with the publican,
crying -- God be merciful to me a sinner?"
- William Tiptaft
"It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep
me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if
I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me."
- Alan Redpath
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