Billy Graham Quotes

Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

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

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.

Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.

'Kol Nidrei' is probably the most important prayer in the Jewish religion. It comes on the evening of Yom Kippur. There are so many different renditions of it.

I'm Christian. I've made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances.

True atonement isn't the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all: not making the same stupid mistake again.

I believe in second chances and I have strong faith in God that he forgives our sins.

Most people, including many Jews, think of Yom Kippur as a 25-hour caffeine headache capped off by a lox-and-bagels binge. It's undeniably that. But it is also, at its deepest level, a dry run. It is the one day of the year when we Jews are asked to look our mortality in the face.

Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.