Repentance is the doorway to the spiritual life, the only way to begin. It is also the path itself, the only way to continue. Anything else is foolishness and self-delusion. Only repentance is both brute-honest enough, and joyous enough, to bring us all the way home.
Frederica Mathewes-Green, The Illumined Heart:
The Ancient Christian Path of Transformation
hat tip: Creedal Christian (where there is a fuller excerpt)
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