Just here is a point on which many may err, and hence they fail of receiving the help that Christ desires to give them. They think that they cannot come to Christ unless they first repent, and that repentance prepares for the forgiveness of their sins. It is true that repentance does precede the forgiveness of sins; for it is only the broken and contrite heart that will feel the need of a Saviour. But must the sinner wait till he has repented before he can come to Jesus? Is repentance to be made an obstacle between the sinner and the Saviour?英文原著 · 《Steps to Christ》
My brethren, self-destroyed out of Beelzebub's orchard, and all my brethren, live a life henceforth of true repentance. Not out of the sins of your youth only, but out of the best, the most watchful, and the most blameless day you ever live, distil your half-pint of repentance every night before you sleep. For, as dear old Skill said, unless you do, neither flesh nor blood of Christ, nor anything else, will do you any genuine good.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-2》
"Oh, William!" sobbed the unhappy lady, "her whole life, after she left you, was one long scene of repentance, of seeking forgiveness. Her repentance, her sorrow, was greater than she could bear, and----"英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
However, we must now contrast the false repentance of the sophists with true repentance, in order that both may be the better understood.英文原著 · 《The Smalcald Articles》
Of this repentance John preaches, and afterwards Christ in the Gospel, and we also. By this [preaching of] repentance we dash to the ground the Pope and everything that is built upon our good works. For all is built upon a rotten and vain foundation, which is called a good work or law, even though no good work is there, but only wicked works, and no one does the Law (as Christ, John 7, 19, says), but all transgress it. Therefore the building [that is raised upon it] is nothing but falsehood and hypocrisy, even [in the part] where it is most holy and beautiful.英文原著 · 《The Smalcald Articles》
I will never forgive myself, I don't expect you to, either, And I would really appreciate it if you would leave me with Penny For a session of self-criticism and repentance.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Your marriage is in trouble because you don't acknowledge true repentance.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
Live your life in a way that proves repentance: seek God's purpose for your life."美剧 · 《Young Sheldon》