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。