"Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." — Acts 11:18

I have never known a man who has thought upon, and taken a view of the cross, who has not found that it begat "repentance," and begat faith.
We look at Jesus Christ if we would be saved, and we then say. "Amazing sacrifice! that Jesus thus died to save sinners."

If you want faith, remember he gives it, if you want repentance, he gives it! If you want everlasting life, he gives it liberally.

He can force you to feel your great sin, and cause you to repent by the sight of Calvary's cross, and the sound of the greatest, deepest death shriek,
"Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" "My God! my God! why hast thou forsaken me?" That will beget "repentance;" it will make you weep and say, "Alas! and did my Saviour bleed; and did my Sovereign die for me?"

Then beloved, if you would have "repentance," this is my best advice to you — look to Jesus. And may the blessed Giver of all "repentance unto salvation" guard you from the false repentances which I have described, and give you that "repentance," which existeth unto life.

Charles Spurgeon