The one word repentance, is a term that causes man of our modern society a feeling of discomfort similar to that which a sick man experiences on hearing the name of an unpleasant drug. Nevertheless, in every age and far more in the present deeply uneasy, tired and unsettled age nothing is more useful, more indispensable than repentance. Often man wishes for nothing else more Keenly, even though he has no clear notion of what he really craves.
Man has an ardent desire for repentance, because the finest and noblest words in human literature expressing the highest degree of human happiness and the most valuable gifts which respond to the deepest desires of our souls are rest, peace, love, joy, life, all of which are contained in one somewhat repulsive word and which are promised by the Lord who invites every man to repentance and are given by Him to every true penitent.
+Archimandrite Seraphim PapaCostas, from Repentance, 1.Invitation to Repentance
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