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.