Quotes About Contrition

I weep for the stupidity of my sins.

Part of the depressive syndrome is that you are immensely loyal to your interpretation of yourself and your world. If God says you are forgiven in Christ, you create new rules that mandate contrition, penance, and self-loathing. If God says he loves you, you insist it is impossible. There it is: your system is higher than God's.

Florence did, however, attend Mass regularly in Corpus Christi, the Catholic church on Maiden Lane, and Freda wondered if she professed her contrition and was absolved (Florence had taught her the word). How handy it must be to have one's slate wiped clean on a regular basis.

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

Alas! 'tis true I have gone here and there,And made myself a motley to the view,Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear,Made old offenses of affections new.

We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit that we have failed, are failing, and always will fail.

It would appear," Top said, blinking his eyes in mock contrition, "that I've accidentally handcuffed my arm to the door handle of this van. And I've completely forgotten what I did with the key.

But my apology was a thousand apologies.

Of course I apologized, but I couldn't shake the sense that I was truly an asshole.

It's good to be sorry - but don't make a fetish of it. The one good thing about being Protestant is that we are not expected to cringe forever in contrition. Yours was a venial sin, Vivian, but not a mortal one.' 'I don't know what that means.' 'I'm not sure I do, either. It's just something I once read. Here is what I do know, however: sins of the flesh will not get you punished in the afterlife. They will only get you punished in this life. As you've now learned.

The one good thing about being Protestant is that we are not expected to cringe forever in contrition.

I'm sorry for what I did. Of course you are. I'm sorry for many of the things I've done, too. Everyone is sorry. It's good to be sorry - but don't make a fetish of it. The one good things about being Protestant is that we are not expected to cringe forever in contrition. Yours was a venial sin, Vivian, but not a mortal one. [...] Sins of the flesh will not get you punished in the afterlife. They will only get you punished in this life. As you've now learned.

His chief uneasiness was that he could not be truly penitent about it.

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by God than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

how do we experience a contrite heart? a grieving, broken, sorrowing, repentant heart?

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

You don't want to hear about the time I was a naughty little boy.

I'm sorry,' Finn mumbled, a global apology for everything he was, and everything he was not, and all the ways he couldn't let it go.

We can't build anything that will impress God because He has already created the entire universe. There is one thing, however, that does attract His favor: "On this one will I look [esteem or respect]." Whom will God respect and take into account? "Him who is poor and of a contrite spirit and who trembles at My word.

In such a Church the world finds a cheap covering for its sins; no contrition is required, still less any real desire to be delivered from sin.

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.