REPENTANCE - Urgency | 悔改 - 迫切 |
If we lose out time to repent, we shall repent for
ever that we once lost our time. Thomas Adams 如果我們未曾把握悔改的時間,我們會為此懊悔不以。 |
None can be too young to
amend that is old enough to die. Thomas Adams 沒有一個人會嫌太年輕去修補那早已老得讓他滅亡的罪惡。 |
A religion that does not begin with repentance is
certain to end there - perhaps too late. 一個宗教若非始於悔改就必停在那兒 - 或許嫌太遲了。 |
Though after this life
repentance be perpetual, it is in vain. Augustine 縱然今生之後不斷悔改,亦負枉然。 |
You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know
how soon it may be too late. Thomas Fuller 你不會悔改得過早的,因為你不知道多快你就會覺得或許太遲了。 |
If God's today be too soon
for thy repentance, thy tomorrow may be too late for his acceptance. William Secker 如果上帝的今日對你的悔改而言太早了,那你的明日對祂的接納可能就太遲了。 |
Sin and hell are married unless repentance proclaims
the divorce. C. H. Spurgeon 罪惡與地獄結為連理,除非悔改宣告兩者離異。 |
He who promised forgiveness
to them that repent has not promised repentance to them that sin. Ralph Venning 上帝應許賜與悔改的人赦罪,卻為應許賜與犯罪的人悔改。 |