godly repentance

"Genuine, spiritual mourning for sin

 is the work of the Spirit of God.

Repentance

is too choice a flower

to grow in natures garden.

Pearls grow naturally in oysters,

but penitence never shows itself in sinners

except divine grace works it in them.

If you have one particle of real hatred for sin,

God must have given it to you,

for human nature's thorns never produced a single fig.

'That which is born of the flesh is flesh.'

True repentance has a distinct reference to the Savior.

True sorrow for sin is eminently practical.

No man may say he hates sin if he lives in it.

Repentance 

makes us see the evil of sin,

not merely as a theory

but

experimentally ~

as a burnt child dreads fire,

we shall be as much afraid of it,

as a man who has been stopped and robbed is afraid of that 

thief upon the highway;

and we shall shun it ~ shun it in everything~

not in great things only, 

but in little things,

as men shun little vipers and great snakes.

True mourning for sin 

will make us very jealous over our tongue, 

lest it should say a wrong word.

We shall be very watchful over our daily actions,

lest in anything we offend,

and each night

 we shall close the day 

with painful confessions of shortcomings, 

and each morning 

awaken with anxious prayers

 that this day God would hold us up

 so that we would not sin against Him.

Sincere repentance is continual.

Believers repent until their dying day."

Charles Spurgeon

"Godly sorrow worketh repentance."

II Corinthians 7:10

Oh my, how kind is my God to reveal to me that I am a sinner.