" The Christian life is a lifelong “race of repentance,” but we want to have arrived already.10 We don’t like having to become different, but repentance is the Bible’s word for “thorough, deep-seated, genuine change.” It means turning from old ways to new. You wake up to find yourself living in God’s universe, no longer sleepwalking through the universe of your desires and fears. A race of repentance calls for the ongoing reversal of our deepest instincts and opinions. You wake up again and again. "

― David A. Powlison , Speaking Truth in Love: Counsel in Community