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The Grace of Repentance (Today's Issues (Wheaton, Ill.).) QUOTES

The Grace of Repentance (Today's Issues (Wheaton, Ill.).) QUOTES

1 " Biblical repentance, then, is not merely a sense of regret that leaves us where it found us. It is a radical reversal that takes us back along the road of our sinful wanderings, creating in us a completely different mind-set. We come to our senses spiritually (Luke 15:17). Thus the prodigal son’s life was no longer characterized by the demand “give me” (v. 12) but now by the request “make me . . .” (v. 19). This lies on the surface of the New Testament’s teaching. Regret there will be, but the heart of repentance is the lifelong moral and spiritual turnaround of our lives as we submit to the Lord. "

― Sinclair B. Ferguson , The Grace of Repentance (Today's Issues (Wheaton, Ill.).)

2 " Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it. "

― Sinclair B. Ferguson , The Grace of Repentance (Today's Issues (Wheaton, Ill.).)

3 " Our problem, like Jonah's, does not lie in the parts of Scripture we find difficult to understand. Like him, we turn away from the word of the Lord that we do understand. We do not read it, we do not love it, we have become almost incapable of meditating upon it; we are careless, if not actually callous about submitting to it. "

― Sinclair B. Ferguson , The Grace of Repentance (Today's Issues (Wheaton, Ill.).)