“Rend your hearts and not your garments.”
There is a vast difference between the public displays of remorse we so regularly see in the media and actual repentance. The
former is purely external and serves the purpose of notifying one’s community
that the party subject to censure acknowledges his faux pas and hopes for a quick end to the unpleasantness of public
disapproval so he can return to his former way of doing business as
expeditiously as possible.
The latter is a matter of the heart before God.