Perhaps
you have the notion that repentance is a thing that happens
at the commencement of the spiritual life and has to be
gotten through as one undergoes a certain operation—and that
is an end of it. If so, you are greatly mistaken!
Repentance lives as long as faith.
Towards faith I might almost call it a Siamese twin. We
shall need to believe and to repent as long as we live!
Perhaps, also, you have the idea that repentance is a bitter
thing. It is sometimes bitter—“They shall be in bitterness
for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn,”
but that is not the kind of repentance that I am talking of,
now. Surely that bitterness is past, it was all over long
ago. But this is a sweet bitterness which attends
faith as long as we live—and becomes a source of tender joy!
- C. H. Spurgeon,
Repentance After Conversion, No. 2419
Stopped repenting?
The Christian who has
stopped repenting has stopped growing.
- A. W. Pink
