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Sept. 16--Sorry, Your Excellency. On Tuesday, Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik announced a Year of Repentance, a way for the clergy to give back to the communities wounded by decades of [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Repentance is a powerful force for reform. A good test of this enduring idea can be seen in Ukraine over the coming weeks as the [...]

The letter sat on my desk like a dead bird. Just seeing my name written in that familiar handwriting with the capital letters and the loops sent me backing away. [...]

QUOTE: 'Repentance is accepted remorse.' --Swetchine, Anne Sophie SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.' --Smith, Robert SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'But with morning cool repentance came.' --Scott, Sir Walter SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.' --Rousseau, Jean Jacques SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.' --Seneca SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.' --Quarles, Francis SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.' --Miller, Henry SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Repentance won't cure mischief.' --Proverb, Gaelic SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.' --Nash, Ogden SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will [...]

QUOTE: 'Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the [...]

QUOTE: 'Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.' --Macaulay, J. C. SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'True repentance is to cease from sinning.' --Milan, Ambrose of SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Repentance is but want of power to sin.' --Dryden, John SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.' --Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.' --Franklin, Benjamin SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.' --Fuller, Thomas SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.' --Carlyle, Thomas SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.' --Byron, Lord SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.' --Browne, Sir Thomas SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.' --Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.' --Brower, Walter SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.' --Billings, Josh SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.' --Bradley, Francis H. SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.' --Billings, Josh SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Bad men are full of repentance.' --Aristotle SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.' --Beecher, Willard SUBJECT: [...]

QUOTE: 'Repentance is another name for aspiration.' --Beecher, Henry Ward SUBJECT: [...]