superficial sorrow

Orson F. Whitney: Repentance is not that superficial sorrow felt by the wrongdoer when "caught in the act"- a sorrow not for sin, but for sin's detection. Chagrin is not repentance. Mortification and shame alone bring no change of heart toward right feeling and right living. Even remorse is not all there is to repentance. In the highest meaning and fullest measure, repentance is equivalent to reformation; the beginning of the reformatory process being resolve to "sin no more."

(Book: "Cowley and Whitney on Doctrine," p. 435)