REPENTANCE - Essence See also: Confession; Contrition; Conviction of Sin; Penitence | 悔改 - 本質 |
Obedience is the positive side of repentance. 順服是悔改積極的一面。 |
Repentance is a chance of
the mind and regeneration is a change of the men. Thomas Adams 悔改是心智的變化以及一個人的重生改變。 |
Repentance is a continual spring, where the waters
of godly sorrow are always flowing. Thomas Brooks 悔改是永不停止的泉源,在其中屬靈憂傷的泉水不斷湧流。 |
To forsake sin is to leave
it without any thought reserved of returning to it again. William Gurnall 揚棄罪惡就是不再存著任何再犯的念頭。 |
Repentance is the tear in the eye of faith. D. L. Moody 悔改是信心眼睛的淚珠。 |
Repentance is a thorough
change of man's natural heart on the subject of sin. J. C. Ryle 悔改是人心罪惡部分的徹底改變。 |
When the Word of God converts a man, it takes away
from him his despair, but it does not take from him his repentance. C. H. Spurgeon 當上帝的話語改變一個人時,能挪去他的絕望,但卻不會讓他離開他的懊悔。 |
Man truly repents only when
he learns that his sin has made him unable to repent without the renewing grace of God. Augustus H. Strong 只有在一個人確實知道若沒有上帝更新的慈愛,他的罪將使他無法悔改時,才能真正悔改。 |
The true holy water is not that which the pope
sprinkles, but is distilled from the penitent eye. Thomas Watson 真正聖水不是出自教皇的灑水,而是出自悔改的眼睛。 |