By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
Remember also, the present is your only time to be saved. There is no believing, no repenting, no conversion in the grave---no minister will speak to you there. This is the time of conversion.
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
I've got some repenting to do.
When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin. . . Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.
Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.
Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.
The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.
