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Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.
Indeed, if prayer does not make a man leave sin, sin will make him leave prayer.
Repentance is a continuous act! The issue of godly sorrow must not be quite stopped till death.
but what is knowledge good for without repentance?
The Hebrew word for 'repent' signifies 'to take comfort'. None so joyful as the penitent!
Oh, but my sins are out of measure sinful! Do not make them greater by not repenting. Repentance unravels sin and makes it as if it had never been.
Repentance causes knowledge: ‘When 'their heart shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away' (2 Cor. 3.16).
Repenting is a returning to God, and this brings a golden harvest.
Instead of sighs you will have triumphs, instead of groans, anthems, instead of the water of tears, the water of life. The mourning of the dove will be past, and the time of the singing of birds will come.
You can no more conceal your sin than you can defend it. And what will you do when all your sins shall be written in God's book and engraven on your forehead? I direful day, when Jesus Christ, clothed in his judge's robe, shall say to the sinner, 'Stand forth; answer to the indictment brought against you.
Be as speedy in your repentance as you would have God speedy in his mercies: 'the king's business required haste' (1 Sam. 21.8). Therefore repentance requires haste.
Many are now in hell that purposed to repent.
Satan does what he can to keep men from repentance. When he sees that they begin to take up serious thoughts of reformation, he bids them wait a little longer. If this traitor, sin, must die (says Satan), let it not die yet.
The sooner you repent the fewer sins you will have to answer for
The thief on the cross could not do that service for God as St Paul did.
The more work we do for God, the greater will our reward be.
By late repentance, though we do not lose our crown, yet we make it lighter.
They are under the power of Satan (Acts 26.18), and it is dangerous to stay long in the enemy's quarters. It is dangerous to procrastinate repentance because the longer any go on in sin the harder they will find the work of repentance. Delay strengthens sin and hardens the heart and gives the devil fuller possession.
A plant at first may be easily plucked up, but when it has spread its roots deep in the earth, a whole team cannot remove
It is hard to remove sin when once it come...
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After Peter wept we never read that Christ upbraided him with his denial of him. God has cast your sins into the depths of the sea
Many will rather lose heaven than ply the oar and row thither upon the waters of repentance.
Delighting in sin hardens the heart. In true repentance there must be a grieving for sin, but how can one grieve for that which he loves?
He is the God of tenderness and compassion. No sooner do we mourn than God's heart melts. No sooner do our tears fall than God's repentings kindle (Hos. 11.8).
What do the wicked reproach you for? Is it because you repent? You are doing your duty. Bind their reproaches as a crown about your head. It is better that men should reproach you for repenting than that God should damn you for not repenting.
Every step forward in sin is a step backward from God:
Sin blots our name, taints our blood.
