Quotes About Contrition

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be a dickhead. Well, I did.

Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

I am come here for the express purpose of undoing my impiety.

Shameful, wouldn't you

But we all hurt the people we love sometimes. We all let each other down sooner or later. Which is why contrition and forgiveness played a part in any relationship. Trying not to hurt each other, trying not to let each other down in the big things, that was as much as anyone could aim for.

Kegemteraan. En malayo, la alegría de tropezar. El sentimiento simultáneo de placer y desconsuelo cuando sabes que has hecho algo que no deberías.

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God!

A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room.

She rubbed salt into it: I'm thoughtless, all right. Selfish, self-willed, I eat too much, and I feel like the Book of Common Prayer. Lord forgive me for not doing what I should have done and for doing what I shouldn't have done—oh hell.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

Oh, Mr Norrell! Such a noodle I am upon occasion!

I myself was so often hell-bound from my sinful pride that I was sinfully proud of it. Mama

I thought I wronged you in that garden, spoke out of turn. I came to beg your pardon, but you make very difficult for me.

I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon.

I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.

I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.

Every morning she went to the eight o'clock service at the basilica of Santa María del Mar, and she confessed no less than three times a week, four in warm weather. Don Gustavo, who was a confirmed agnostic (which Bernarda suspected might be a respiratory condition, like asthma, but afflicting only refined gentlemen), deemed it mathematically impossible that the maid should be able to sin sufficiently to keep up that schedule of confession and contrition.

Hence, too, the man who sins in spite of himself but does not love his sin, is not a sinner in the full sense of the word.

Le sembrerà stupido, ma è una cosa che dico sempre. É un mio vizio. Insomma, mi dispiace