Thomas Brooks Quotes

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.

Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification.

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.