On Repentance:

To repent means to feel in our hearts the falsehood, the madness, the wickedness of our sins; it means to ackowledge that we have offended, by them, our Creator, our Lord, our Father, our Benefactor, who is infinitely holy, and infinitely abhors sin; it means to desire with the whole soul to amend and to atone for our sins.


St. John of Kronstadt