Quotes on repentance

1. If I should die in the pulpit, I should desire to die preaching repentance, and if I should die out of the pulpit, I should desire to die practising it. (Philip Henry)
2. To do so no more is the soundest repentance. (Luther)
3. Our Lord has laid down most emphatically that a man must repent of his sins, and particularly of his critical and independent attitude towards God, or he cannot begin to live the Christian life. (Leith Samuel)
4. To forsake sin is to leave it without any thought of returning to it again. (William Gurnall)
5. True repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. (Robert Smith)
6. The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else. (John Bunyan)
7. When the soul has laid down its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings. (Eugenie de Guerin)