The New Testament word for repentance means changing one’s mind so that one’s views,
values, goals, and ways are changed and one’s whole life is lived differently. The change
is radical, both inwardly and outwardly; mind and judgement, will and affections, behavior
and life-style, motives and purposes, are all involved. Repenting means starting a new
life. — J. I. Packer, Concise Theology, PG 162.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. — Naomi Judd (1946-____)

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but
saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than yesterday. — Jonathan Swift

An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. — Caroline Gascoigne

Repentance is a grace of God’s Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly
reformed. THOMAS WATSON

Then Isaiah heard the wonderful words: ‘This has touched your lips. Your guilt is taken
away and your sin is atoned for.’ And the Scripture goes on: ‘Then I heard the voice of
the Lord saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?

And I said: Here am I! Send me.’ Note the total unconditionality of that response,
‘Send me’. It does not mean, ‘Send me, I was going that way anyhow’, or ‘Send me, I was
planning to do that’, or ‘Send me, I rather like the sound of that idea’. It may mean
something much more disagreeable. In my case it means,

‘Send me to prison’. — Jonathan Aitken in The Tablet. 12 June 1999

I quit telling my husband"I’m sorry", when he said, "So’s the rest of
your family!" — Pat Nordman

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse
you are, the more you need it and the less you can do it. — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.
–Shakespeare