Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

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

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

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.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

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