Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

I am an optimist unrepentant and militant. After all in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Put a bridle on thy tongue set a guard before thy lips lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance but in silence is safety.

Bad men are full of repentance.

As to marriage or celibacy let a man take which course he will he will be sure to repent.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

What is past is past there is a future left to all men who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.

Every year during their High Holy Days the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

When a child can be brought to tears and not from fear of punishment but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

When death the great reconciler has come it is never our tenderness that we repent of but our severity.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from but our severity.

Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

Men of age object too much consult too long adventure too little repent too soon and seldom drive business home to the full period but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.