#repent

If you truly wish to change what is without, you must first change what festers within. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#change #change-your-life #convert #repentance #richelle

I dare say you are planning on a late repentance. You do not know what you are doing. You are planning without God. Repentance and faith are the gifts of God, and they are gifts that He often withholds, when they have been long offered in vain. I grant you true repentance is never too late, but I warn you at the same time, late repentance is seldom true. I grant you, one penitent thief was converted in his last hours, that no man might despair; But I warn you, only one was converted, that no man might presume. I grant you it is written, Jesus is ‘Able to save completely those who come to God through him’ (Hebrews 7:25). But I warn you, it is also written by the same Spirit, ‘Since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand, I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you’ (Proverbs 1:24-26). Believe me, you will find it no easy matter to turn to God whenever you please. ↗

— J.C. Ryle

#repentance #faith

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment. ↗

— Herman Melville

#punishment #repentance #faith

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. ↗

— Ted Chiang

#repentance #forgiveness

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda ↗

— Ouida

#love #repentance #forgiveness

If you do bad stuff and don't repent, you go to hell," Orc said, like he was begging for a refutation. "Yeah, well, you know what? If Howard's in hell, I guess we can all have a big get-together soon enough. a ↗

— Michael Grant

#funny #get-togethers #hell #orc #repenting

An arrogant laughs at repentance. ↗

— Toba Beta

#funny #repentance #funny

The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth. ↗

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#repentance #gospel

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#prodigal #rebellion #reconciliation #repentance #restoration

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. ↗

— George Eliot

#death #never #our #repent #severity