Ten For Tuesday: On Repentance

 A stiff apology is a second insult. ~ G.K. Chesterton

All the longer your delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

~ Richard Baxter

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. ~ C.S. Lewis

The Christian who has stopped repenting has stopped growing. ~ A.W. Pink

Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, in saying, Repent Ye, intended that the whole of the life of believers should be repentance. ~ Martin Luther

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

~ Thomas Brooks

Again and again, God’s Word reveals that He is not as concerned about the depth or extent of the sin we commit as He is about our attitude and response when we are confronted with our sin. ~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Scripture considers repentance a path to liberation, not condemnation. ~ Ed Welch

Repentance that renews precious fellowship with our incomparably wonderful God ultimately furthers our joy.  Just as we cannot enter into true repentance without sorrow for our guilt, we cannot emerge from true repentance without joy for our release from shame. ~ Bryan Chapell

Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it. ~ Matthew Henry

Next week’s Ten For Tuesday: On Forgiveness