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.
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.
Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
I'm interested in that drive that rush to judgment that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do isn't it?