“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.”– Francois de La Rochefoucauld Related Quotes “If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)”— Victor Hugo “So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding. (Quindi il giorno divenne un giorno d’attesa, cosa che era, lo sapeva bene, un peccato: i momenti devono essere sperimentati; aspettare è un peccato contro il tempo che deve ancora venire e contro gli istanti presenti che vengono trascurati.)”— Neil Gaiman “A call for national and individual repentance is urgently needed today, or judgment is certain to fall.”— Billy Graham