Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.
True repentance is to cease from sin.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.
It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.
I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.
Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.