"The truth is that we have become so accustomed to the confession of sin and unfaithfulness or disobedience and backsliding that it is no longer considered as a matter for shame and humiliation before God"
Andrew Murray

"You cannot repent too soon, because you do not know how soon it may be too late."
Thomas Fuller

"We are trying to play without the ball when the church tries to evangelize before she has repented. The church can do many things after she has repented but nothing until she first repents."
Vance Havner

"Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it."
Matthew Henry

"Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death."
John Owen

"True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God’s love."
W.M. Taylor

"True repentance is to cease from sin."
Ambrose of Milan

“To do so no more is the truest repentance.”
Martin Luther

"When your repentance is more notorious than your sin--then it is genuine."
C.H. Spurgeon

"The surest signs of true regeneration is when we love those attributes of God that are most reprehensible to the natural man."
Jonathan Edwards

"The 'flesh' is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified."
Watchman Nee