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Repentance and Confession

Posted on February 6, 2023April 29, 2023 by Alan Holden
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A Hearty Sorrow

Repentance is a hearty sorrow for our past misdeeds, and a sincere resolution and an endeavor to the utmost of our power, to conform all our actions to the law of God. It does not consist in one single act of sorrow, but in doing works meet for repentance; in a sincere obedience to the law of Christ for the remainder of our lives. –John Locke

Double-sided

Repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things part with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. –Robert South

The Sin or the Penalty

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God’s love. –W.M. Taylor

Ceasing

True repentance is to cease from sin. –Ambrose of Milan

Repentance at the Last Moment

There is one case of deathbed repentance recorded—that of the penitent thief, that none should despair; and only one that none should presume. –Augustine

The Joy of the Repentant Heart

When the soul has laid down its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings. –Eugenie de Guerin

Verbalizing

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking comes repentance.

True Repentance—the Cynical View

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of consequences.

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