Repentance And Forgiveness Quotations

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

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

I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance and hatred. There is so great a need for repentance and forgiveness. It is the great principle emphasized in all of scripture, both ancient and modern. Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.