Quotes About Contrition

Owen had apologized for his harsh words, but the contrition felt hollow, because so were his feelings.

It takes alot for me to say I'm sorry

The self-righteous never apologize.

O dear white children casual as birds, Playing among the ruined languages, So small beside their large confusing words, So gay against the greater silences Of dreadful things you did: O hang the head, Impetuous child with the tremendous brain, O weep, child, weep, O weep away the stain, Lost innocence who wished your lover dead, Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

Driver, can you tell him that I'm sorry? I wasn't supposed to be like this. I swear.

God doesn't forgive because we're worthy, but because he love us. And no sin is too great to be absolved--if contrition is sincere. It all begins with an earnest "I'm sorry

If it were merely sin that existed, and not the resulting transience as well, contrition would be appropriate', said Athanasius, and goes on: `But God becomes human and subjects himself to "the law of death" so as to take away death's power over human beings and his creation, and in order to bring immortality to light.'16

I personally think that the visibility that the Cowboys have, the kind of interest we have, is best served and best used by showing people that are contrite, know the mistakes they've made, and want to try to go in a different direction.

a thief's heart is an impetuous organ, and while inwardly he throbs for absolution, at the same time he can't keep from bragging.

Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.

It is foolish for Rubens to show her simpering. They were clearly guilty and did her much sorrow.

Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness--this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain.

They moaned and squealed, and pressed their snouts to the earth. We are sorry, we are sorry. Sorry you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak, but you were wrong.

Satisfied, she calmly turned to Bull, who meekly knelt and sought her forgiveness

One night i rode home - it was a confession - and i came staggering across the yard and i fell into the rosebush and crawled up the stairs on my hands and knees and i was sick on the floor beside my bed. In the morning I tried to tell him I was sorry, and do you know what he said? 'Why, Tom, you were just jolly'. 'Jolly,' if I did it. A drunken man didn't crawl home. Just Jolly

I feel terrible. I'm not proud of what I did. You deserve better.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Feeling one ought to apologize is not quite the same thing as saying 'I am sorry' " -Penelope

Cassawoof no teeth, no bite, sorry, sorry, sorry.

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

I am only a man." It was a rumbling murmur, his eyes on her mouth. "If you continue to play with me thus, I'll forget I came to apologize for my behavior, and act in a fashion that'll have you angry with me all over again.

God offers grace and forgiveness for a contrite heart. But society offers cruel consequences and never forgives.

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

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.