Quotes About Contrition

The eye is for both seeing and weeping. Sin must first be seen before it can be wept for.

Contrition for an offence must precede the pardon of an offence.

If the Damall had caught Griff taking wine and salt, Griff would have begged forgiveness. Griff would have been afraid and sorry and promised never to do it again. When Griff was afraid he would promise. Later, he might take the wine and salt again, and be afraid again, and promise again, and break the promise again, over and over again. Griff had the bending strength of a sapling.

his avowal of follies and excess seemed uttered rather in the spirit of wounded pride, than in that of contrition.

I'm sorry I ever thought about eating you.

Forgive my pants for remaining unshitten.

Happy I'm stupid. You're smart. I was wrong. You were right. You're the best. I'm the wrost. You're very good-looking. I'm not very attractive.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Oh! how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him. For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him.

I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.

I would mind it less, said Mrs. Westfall, if you looked a bit sorry or ashamed. The Virginian shook his head at her penitently. I'm tryin' to, he said

Thomas à Kempis: Of what use is it to discourse learnedly on the Trinity, if you lack humility and therefore displease the Trinity? Lofty words do not make a man just or holy; but a good life makes him dear to God. I would far rather feel contrition than be able to define it. If you knew the whole Bible by heart, and all the teachings of the philosophers, how would this help you without the grace and love of God?[6]

they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent;

they do not relish the repentance as much as they do the crime

they are not asham'd to sin, and yet are asham'd to repent; not asham'd of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are asham'd of the returning...

We laughed at the hollyhocks together and then I sprayed them with lye. Forgive me. I simply do not know what I am doing.

Alack, when once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right; we would and we would not.

So she repented. Since she wasn't quite sure for what, she repented entirely and for everything.

Henry likes to utter his sin and be forgiven. He is sincerely sorry, he will not do it again. And in this case, perhaps he will not. The temptation to cut off your wife's head does not arise every year.

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

Because I'm a Christian.' She had been pushed beyond the limit of her endurance and the words had burst out without thinking . . . but of course it was true. That really was the answer; for if you were a Christian you had to forgive people who showed contrition, no matter what they had done. She had no idea what 'Uncle Randal' had done, but he was sorry and wanted to end the feud. If you did not forgive other people you could not expect forgiveness from God . . .

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