John A. Kane > Quotes

“Repentance (from the Greek metanoia) is the mind itself changed and transformed. It is the supernatural conquering the natural. It is the assumption of the spirit of Christ according to the words of St. Paul: "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ”
― John A. Kane, How to Make a Good Confession: A Pocket Guide to Reconciliation With God

“All therefore is well, and there is no need of vacuity and depression of soul over the littleness of our amendment if we are corresponding with grace, and thus gradually forming and fashioning Christ within us. We are growing in virtue imperceptibly, just as the tender seedling, in its predestined vigorous fullness, slowly expands into flower.”
― John A. Kane, How to Make a Good Confession: A Pocket Guide to Reconciliation with God