That he who now tempts you to sin upon this account, that repentance is easy, will, before long, to work you to despair, and forever to break the neck of your soul, present repentance as the most difficult and hardest work in the world.
[Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices]
Before you sin, he will tell you repentance is easy, but after you sin he will tell you repentance is too hard.
[Paraphrased]
True repentance is never too late — yet late repentance is seldom true.
[Thomas Brooks, Apples of Gold]
Repentance is not a little hanging down our heads...but a working in our hearts to such grief as will make sin [itself] more odious unto us than punishment, until we offer an holy violence against it.
[Richard Sibbes]
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