“True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God's love.”

—  William Mackergo Taylor

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 506.

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