Hans L. Martensen Quotes

MARTENSEN, Hans L. Quotes

(1808-1881), Danish theologian

Repentance

Repentance is not only grief on ac­count of this or that particular act; it is a deep-seated sorrow on account of the discrepancy between the outward acts of the will and that ideal which is presented to the conscience in the new Adam—the typical—the  Christian man.