Repenting of Our Sins

I knew this book would be good - I love it when I start a book and I'm not even 10 pages into it and there are amazing truth's like this revealed - makes me excited for what's in store for me in the rest of the book! From Bruce C. Hafen's book "The Broken Heart" - page 8

We have been told that if we do not repent, we must suffer even as the Savior did to satisfy the demands of justice (D&C 19:15-17)

I once wondered if those who refuse to repent but who then satisfy the law of justice by paying for their own sins are then worthy to enter the celestial kingdom. the answer is no. The entrance requirements for celestial life are simply higher than merely satisfying the law of justice. For that reason, paying for our sins will not bear the same fruit as repenting of our sins. Justice is a law of balance and order and it must be satisfied, either through our payment or His. But if we decline the Savior's invitation to let him carry our sins, and then satisfy justice by ourselves, we will not yet have experienced the complete rehabilitation that can occur through a combination of divine assistance and genuine repentance. Working together, those forces have the power permanently to change our hearts and our lives, preparing us for celestial life. The Savior asks for our repentance not merely to compensate him for paying our debt to justice but also as a way of inducing us to undergo the process of development that will make our nature divine, giving us the capacity to live the celestial law. The "natural man" will remain an enemy to God forever--even after paying for his own sins--unless he also "becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child" (Mosiah 3:19)

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Therefore I command you to repent—repent, lest I smite you by the rod of my mouth, and by my wrath, and by my anger, and your sufferings be sore—how sore you know not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know not. For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I; Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink—Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men. (D&C 19:15-17)