Sin and Repentance Archives - Page 5 of 24

"Better that I be a fool all my days than wicked even for an hour before the Lord." ~~ Talmud, Eduyot 5:6

"Any time of the day is good for confession." ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Yoma

"Happy the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked!" ~~ Psalms (Tehillim) 1:1

"Men make mistakes not because they think they know when they do not know, but because they think others do not know." ~~ Shalom Aleichem

"Diverse weights and diverse measures are an abomination to the Lord." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 20:10

"The unjust knows no shame. " ~~ Zephaniah (Tzephaniyah) 3:5

"To know that a thing is bad is half way to repentance." ~~ Meiri

"Just as love blindfolds you and you see no faults, so hate blindfolds you and you see no virtues. " ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra

"What is the remedy for the evil inclination? Repentance!" ~~ Tanchuma

"God created the Evil Impulse, but He also created its antidote, the Torah." ~~ Talmud, Kiddushin 30b

"Where there is no Torah there is no good conduct, and where there is no good conduct there can be no Torah." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers 3:17

"Slander is worse than weapons; for weapons hurt from near, slander from afar." ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Pe’ah I:1