A Quote by Tony Evans
When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation.
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No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.
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In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God's grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.
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It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.
