Repentance and the Whole Man

"Repentance is not limited to any single faculty of the mind: it engages the entire man, intellect, will, and affections. Nor is it confined to the moral sphere of life in the narrower sense: it covers man's entire religious as well as his moral relation to God."

"True repentance strips sin of all that is accidental. It resembles an inner chamber where no one and nothing else is admitted except God and the sinner and his sin."

"The new direction of life which the repentance brings about finds its explanation in the absolute and exclusive subjection of the whole life with all its desires and purposes to God."

-- Geerhardus Vos