The person who says, 'I will sin and say sorry, and again sin and say sorry', will lose the power of repenting.

(Rabbi Moses Maimonides)

If you have behaved badly, repent, do what you can to make things right and try your best to behave better next time. Do not brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

(Aldous Huxley, A Brave New World)

Only weak people repent.

(Lord Byron, poet)

You can't repent in the grave.

(Anon)

Repent and live!

(from the book of Jeremiah)

A Christian is a person who feels
Sorry on a Sunday
For what he did on Saturday
And is going to do on Monday.

(From The Christian, a Victorian church magazine)

If at any time I say that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its wrong doing, then I will hold back and not bring down on it the disaster I had planned.

(God in the book of Jeremiah)

I didn't mean to be horrid and I'm not a nasty person. But I do feel awful about what I did and about not saying that I'm sorry. I want to say 'I'm sorry!' and it's so easy, really, yet the words won't come out. I know I'll feel better if I do. The longer I leave it, the worse it will get. So maybe I'll just take a deep breath, smile and say from the bottom of my heart, 'I'm sorry, really I am!'

(From a Jewish children's prayer book)