Quotes About Contrition

He seems truly sorry.

Well, that's the way to do it,' Michaud said, lightly shrugging his shoulders, his voice nonchalant. 'Give the people you should be apologising to a good telling off, that's it!' In spite

Her anger was against herself, for her frivolity and her blindness.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and it's the fundamental thing - the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn't believe in God lies in obeying one's conscience.

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.

When I say, 'I'm sorry,' it's because I regret something.

But they had their Christmas, beginning thus with parental advice and continuing through all the acts of contrition, love, and decorum. They put on, over their savage lives, the raiment of society, going diligently through the forms and conventions, and thinking, Now, we are like all other families; but they were timid and shy and stuff, like rustics dressed in evening clothes.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Apology - a desperate habit, and one that is rarely cured.

The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient

In sharp contrast to their pagan contemporaries, Israel's remembrance of the past was marked by two tendencies: a faith in Yahweh's fidelity to the Abrahamic covenant, on which Jewish confidence in the future was based, and the contrition that accompanied the remembrance of Israel's own violations of that covenant.

I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it.

Indeed it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it. For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone.

Sins of ignorance or infirmity are to be admonished in a different way than intentional sins of malice of intention. The assurance of forgiveness is not to be offered carelessly by those whose conscience is seared, but to penitents who come contritely to the table of the Lord.

Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.

An apology with the heft of a prayer, if not the faith behind it.

Agenbite of Inwit

passed Grogan's the Tobacconist against which newsboards leaned and told of a dreadful catastrophe in New York. In America those things were continually happening. Unfortunate people to die like that, unprepared. Still, an act of perfect contrition.

What good does it do to speak learnedly about the Trinity if, lacking humility, you displease the Trinity? Indeed it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it. For what would it profit us to know the whole Bible by heart and the principles of all the philosophers if we live without grace and the love of God? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God and serve Him alone.

Grace makes the heart tender, it causes sympathy and charity. As it melts the heart in contrition towards God, so in compassion towards others.