Perhaps a later sudden repentance may make it apparent that the former sudden repentance lacked
true inwardness.
It is removal of intellectual life from the world that accounts for
its true inwardness — an inwardness distinct from the narcissistic inner tracking of one's social standing.
But «passion» is radical inwardness, and
true inwardness is «eternity» (an identification first established in The Concept of Dread).
Not exact matches
Therefore
true faith is radical
inwardness or subjectivity, it comes into existence by a negation of objectivity, and can only maintain itself by a continual process, or repetition, of negating objectivity.
From the packed and intense
inwardness of that statement, which locates the dynamics of the faith - full life of the Christian within the enacted morphology of the Incarnation and resurrection he passes, after sundry personal and admonitory asides, to the blithe and humane: «Finally, brethren, whatever is
true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely...
inwardness of spiritual quality as necessary to
true goodness, (Matthew 5:27 ff.)