All C. S. LEWIS Quotes about “Repentance”

“Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.”
“As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.”
“Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.”
“Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance.”
“[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.”
“The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.”
“We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.”
“You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.”

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