"Without the Redeemer, the inherent hope and joy evaporate, and repentance becomes simply miserable behavior modification." Elder Dale G. Renlund "The invitation to repent is an expression of God's love. Saying yes to that invitation is an expression of ours." Tamara W. Runia "I suspect that discovering what a Christian life looks like depends a lot on discovering the fact that repentance is a practice of joy, that this is something that you want to take up all day long, every day, as a way of engaging the world, rather than something that you want to avoid at all costs as a last resort, in light of your own imperfection." Adam Mil...