Charles Hodge on Repentance

Charles Hodge lived a life of remarkable piety and learning, and in Andrew Hoffecker he has a biographer who tells his story well.

Here’s Hodge on repentance:

Our repentance needs to be repented of, unless it leads us to confession and restitution in cases of private injury; unless it causes us to forsake not merely outward sins, which attract the notice of others, but those which lie concealed in the heart; unless it makes us choose the service of God, as that which is right and congenial, and causes us to live not for ourselves but for him who loved us and gave himself for us.

– W. Andrew Hoffecker, Charles Hodge: The Pride of Princeton (P&R: 2011), 224.