Quotes About Repentance

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

If the robot can recognize the clean flame of life in men who have never fallen from life then he repents, and his will breaks, and a great love of life brings him to his knees, in homage and pure passion of service. Then he receives the kiss of reconciliation and ceases to be a robot, and becomes a servant of life.

Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.

we necessarily have negative, distorted thinking about ourselves and others. We do not ignore or deny it, but we write it out as specifically as we can, just as we do with our sins, and say to God, "Look at this. I don't want this. You take it!" We name it as the distorted thinking that it is. Then we replace it with right thinking—those light-filled thoughts and attitudes in line with truth and the way things really are.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat anymore, I now eat rice cutlets.

Every Mass a Communion Mass" should be the aim of all of us, provided, of course, that anyone conscious of a mortal sin must be forgiven in the sacrament of Confession before receiving our Lord.

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...

I have wrote my name in hell," Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.

My object then, replied Darcy, was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it.

I'm sorry. I would have to disagree. The most important thing is getting right with the Lord, and then he

Holy Crap,' Carolli said. 'You shot Jesus. That's gonna take a lot of Hail Marys.

The damned could be saved, he said, anytime. But they refused to give up their sins. Though they suffered endlessly, they would not give them up, even for salvation, perfect divine love.

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.

Repenting and coming unto Christ through the covenants and ordinances of salvation are prerequisite to and a preparation for being sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost and standing spotless before God at the last day.

It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.

This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.

The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God's people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

I remembered going to confession to a great priest, Father Moriarty of South William Street. I told him, "I shot a man, Father." "Did you think you were doing right? Had you no qualms about it?" he asked me. I told him I didn't have any qualms, I thought I was doing right, and he said, "Carry on with the good work," and gave me absolution.

Indeed, if pride would cease there would be no sin anywhere.

They cannot be humble who do not recognize that they are damnable and stinking sinners.