“The very concept of repentance and atonement has made the Jewish outlook on life one of cheerfulness and confidence.”

— Philip Birnbaum

Festival Prayer Book: Yom Kippur (1960) p.IX

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American translator and writer 1904–1988

Michael Nava (1954) American writer

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“If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man "of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows."”

James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) American theologian and writer

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 287.

“Repentance for one's evil deeds is the safeguard of life.”

Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“.— A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

Source: Human, All Too Human

“When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, "Repent," he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.”

Martin Luther Ninety-five Theses

Thesis 1
Ninety-five Theses (1517)

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“I’m deeply grateful to be Jewish. I feel it’s enriched my life and I feel very strongly about Jewishness.”

Murray Perahia (1947) American classical pianist and conductor

Jewish Chronicle interview http://thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m14s150&AId=57994&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchstr=murray%20perahia&srchtxt=1&srchhead=1&srchauthor=1&srchsandp=1&scsrch=999 (8 February 2008)

“The rose has told In one simplicity.
That never life
Relinquishes a bloom
But to bestow
An ancient confidence.”

Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) American writer

"Tadmore"
Venus Invisible and Other Poems (1928)

“If, when Christ was on his way to Calvary, some brave soul had rescued him from the pious mob, he would not only have been damned for his pains, but would have rendered impossible the salvation of any human being. The Christian world has been trying for nearly two thousand years to explain the atonement, and every effort has ended in an admission that it cannot be understood, and a declaration that it must be believed. Has the promise and hope of forgiveness ever prevented the commission of a sin? Can men be made better by being taught that sin gives happiness here; that to live a virtuous life is to bear a cross; that men can repent between the last sin and the last breath; and that repentance washes every stain of the soul away?”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Some Reasons Why (1881)

“The very concept of repentance and atonement has made the Jewish outlook on life one of cheerfulness and confidence.”

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