Quotes About Repentance

No peace for the wicked

Do you think it's possible to do something so bad, even if you didn't mean to do it, that you can never come back from it? That no one can forgive you?" Luke looked at him for a long, silent moment. Then he said, "Think of someone you love, Simon. Really love. Is there anything they could ever do that would mean you would stop loving them?

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

Sorry doesn't mean shit. Not if you don't plan to stop doing the thing you're so sorry about. There has to be more to amends than just a word. Anybody can say a damn word.

When it was all done and said and shot and ignited and vaporized and swept up and put away and both sincerely and insincerely apologized for, everyone left standing knew that the galaxy could not bear a second go at this sort of thing. Something had to be done. Something mad and real and bright.

Have mercy, and forgive us, Father. We've saved our sacred images, but sacrificed Your image within our souls.

He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?

For sin, too, must always start with but a single misstep, and suddenly we are hurtling toward some uncertain stopping point. All that is sure in the descent is that we will arrive sullied and bruised and unable to regain our former place without hard effort.

Cómo se permite usted, más bien, sostener aún que existen niños malos? Póngase de rodillas y pida perdón.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

First John 1:9

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Tu non potrai fuggir le mie saette se l´arco tiro, o sciocca peccatrice! –

O Lord and Master of my life, Take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk, But grant rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to your servant. Yes, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults, and not to judge my brother and my sister, For You are blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.

God has accepted your repentance. He gives his forgiveness freely.

to forgive is the first step toward redeeming the sin.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance; but he has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. St. Augustine

Tú, que no niegas cercanía a las más grandes pecadoras y que en los Cielos engrandeces al que sincero se arrepiente. Concede a esta noble alma que se abandonó una vez sin sospechar que se perdía el perdón que se ha merecido.

The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

Peace may be denied for a season. … But God our Eternal Father will watch over this nation and all of the civilized world who look to Him. … Our safety lies in repentance. Our strength comes from obedience to the commandments of God. "Are these perilous times? They are. But there is no need to fear. We can have peace in our hearts and peace in our homes. We can be an influence for good in this world, every one of us

repentance is, first and foremost, an acknowledgement of that deeper pool of evil that lies resident in every one of us and which is ready to explode at any moment. (...) A deeper repentance means that I must examine my heart for such potential waywardness and renounce the tendency to compare myself with others, to explain away my failures, and to whine if someone isn't merciful to me.

Anger and Folly walk cheek by jole; Repentance treads on both their Heels.

May you live to be a hundred years With one extra year to repent.

DEATH... To stop sinning suddenly.