Regarding Mormon 2:13 "their sorrowing was not unto repentance…it was rather the sorrowing of the damned" is best summed up in the words from Elder Spencer W. Kimball:
“Often people indicate that they have repented when all they have done is to express regret for a wrong act. But true repentance is marked by that godly sorrow that changes, transforms, and saves. To be sorry is not enough. Perhaps the felon in the penitentiary, coming to realize the high price he must pay for his folly, may wish he had not committed the crime. That is not repentance. The vicious man who is serving a stiff sentence for rape may be very sorry he did the deed, but he is not repentant if his heavy sentence is the only reason for his sorrow. That is the sorrow of the world.
The truly repentant man is sorry before he is apprehended. He is sorry even if his secret is never known. He desires to make voluntary amends…Repentance of the godly type means that one comes to recognize the sin and voluntarily and without pressure from outside sources begins his transformation.” (Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, p. 153)
“Recognition is a sacred moment…real remorse floods the soul…False remorse instead is like ‘fondling our failings.’ In ritual regret, we mourn our mistakes but without mending them.” (Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Conference Report, Nov. 1991 Ensign, “Repentance”)
“…the natural man never picks up the cross. His is the ‘sorrowing of the damned,’ which involves regret but not necessarily over the sin itself. Instead, it is because these sorrowers can no longer take pleasure in sin (see Mormon 2:13). Quite a difference, for the natural man still clings, not to the cross, but to his old ways” (Elder Neal A. Maxwell, That Ye May Believe, p. 48)
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