REPENTANCE - and Holiness | 悔改 - 聖潔 |
God has nowhere undertaken to forgive a sin that man
is not prepared to forsake. 上帝可不打算赦免人們不想揚棄的罪。 |
Repentance is not an idea,
it is action. 悔改可不是個念頭而已,而是一個行動。 |
Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice
from the conviction that it has offended God. Joseph Addison 悔改是放棄任何得罪上帝的行為。 |
True repentance is to cease
from sin. Ambrose 真正的悔改就是停止再犯罪。 |
He never truly repented of any sin whose heart is
not turned against every sin. Thomas Brooks 一個人的心若未變得反對任何罪惡,他就絕未真正悔改。 |
You must fall out with sin
if ever you fall in with God. Thomas Brooks 如果你要認同上帝,那就必須與罪惡決裂。 |
Repentance without amendment is like continually
pumping without mending the leak. Lewis W. Dillwyn 沒有改變的悔改就像不斷打水卻不修補漏洞。 |
Purity as well as pardon is
desired by all true penitents. Andrew Fausset 潔淨與赦免是所有真實悔罪期望得到的。 |
Those that profess repentance must practice it. Matthew Henry 那些說自己悔改的必須說到做到。 |
You should never think of
sin without repenting. Philip Henry 你不應該想到罪而不想到悔改。 |
To do so no more is the truest repentance. Martin Luther 言行合一是最真實的悔改。 |
Repentance begins in the
humiliation of the heart and ends in the reformation of the life. John Mason 悔改起於內心的蒙羞,止於生命的更新。 |
Real repentance consist in the heart begin broken
for sin and from sin. William Nevins 真正悔改在於內心為罪並在罪中深覺傷痛。 |
I charge you that you do not
escape hell if you have no inclination to escape from the things that make it. David Shepherd 如果你未意圖逃離形成地獄的因素,那我指控你並未逃離地獄。 |
The faith which receives Christ must be accompanied
by the repentance which rejects sin. John W. R. Stott 接受基督的信心必須伴隨著拒絕罪惡的悔改。 |
The idea that God will
pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to Scripture and to
common sense. A. W. Tozer 以為上帝會赦免依然背叛的叛徒,這樣的想法與聖經及常理大相逕庭。 |