| REPENTANCE - Essence See also: Confession; Contrition; Conviction of Sin; Penitence | 悔改 - 本質 |
| Obedience is the positive side of repentance. A. W. Tozer 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 悔改是心思的改變，重生則是生命的更新。 |
| Repentance is a continual spring, where the waters
of godly sorrow are always flowing. Thomas Brooks 悔改是一道不息的泉源，敬虔憂傷之水常湧不斷。 |
| 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 真正的聖水，不是教宗灑下的，而是從悔改者眼中流出的淚水所蒸餾而成。 |