#repentance

...in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into... ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#repentance #life

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#sin #love

True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything". ↗

— Serita Ann Jakes

#inspirational #repentance #forgiveness

The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say:"I was wrong." will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes. ↗

— Jim Anderson

#confidence #family #fault #following #honor