Quotes About Contrition

antes de cada uno de sus estallidos de contrición volvía los ojos para comprobar si los espectadores eran numerosos.

When we see that humility is something infinitely deeper than contrition, and accept it as our participation in the life of Jesus, we shall begin to learn that it is our true nobility, and that to prove it in being servants of all is the highest fulfillment of our destiny, as men created in the image of God.

He had entered her body as one walks into a church, a little ashamed for what he was, apologetic because he wasn't worthy, a supplicant for mercy, contrite that such a temple was defiled by his presence.

Tertullian said: "Penitence is a certain passion of the mind which comes from disgust at some previous feeling.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

I feel angry. I'm not proud of myself for this, or for any of it. But then, that's the point.

I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.

I want you, the great breaker of rules, to forgive that I have broken yours.

Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.

Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one's flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself.

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

I'm sorry.' Althoug I wasn't sure what i was sorry for-showing emotion, maybe

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.

For one thing, it had suddenly come to Natalie that when people were sober they repudiated everything they had done when they were drunk, and when they were drunk they repudiated everything they had done when they were sober.

Dunque alla fine mi svelo: sono un mascalzone, per aver creato alla leggera, e un malvagio, per aver distrutto senza pietà. Non ho scusanti.

Surely she had never asked God for anything except that He should let her have her will. And every time she had been granted what she asked for—for the most part. Now here she sat with a contrite heart—not because she had sinned against God but because she was unhappy that she had been allowed to follow her will to the road's end.

It is contrition and faith and love that enable the soul to receive wisdom from heaven. Faith working by love is the key of knowledge, and everyone that loveth "knoweth God." 1 John 4:7.

I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.

Prudence thanked him, experiencing that feeling of contrition which comes to all of us when we have made up our minds to dislike people for no apparent reason and they then perform some kind action.

What differentiates leaders is the ability to recover following a mistake. I make mistakes all the time, but I cop to them, apologize, and move on. Contrition is powerful.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

Usually I'm too tired to apologize.