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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony
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Sin is not to be ignored, nor minimised. It is the most patent fact in life, the darkest experience in the history of the race. It is the root of all the world’s tragedies. It is that which makes ‘conscience a thousand swords,’ ‘the torture of an inward hell,’ ‘the worm that doth begnaw the soul.’
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Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.
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Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.
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Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.
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Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.
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Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.
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Sorrow for past ills, doth restore frail man To his first innocence.
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Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!
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Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
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Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.]
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Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
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That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner, And presently repair to Crosby House; Where–after I have solemnly interred At Chertsey monast’ry with noble king– And wet his grave with my repentant tears– I will with all expedient duty see you.
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
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The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]
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The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.
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The law stops every man’s mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.
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The repentance of man is accepted by God as virtue.’ Voltaire
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The scriptural doctrine in regard to repentance is not, that a man must repent in order to his being qualified to go to Christ; it is rather that he must go to Christ in order to his being able to repent. From Him comes the grace of contrition as well as the cleansing of expiation.
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The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produces amendment; and the greatest is insufficient, if it does not.
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