Veronica Roth Quotes

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

I don't regret any of my transgressions, because I believe I paid for them a million times over.

We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.

I still believe in the power of forgiveness. I believe in the power of redemption. Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in the resurrection.

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

I'm a spiritual dude, and a part of me is forgiving.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

A-tone-ment-its a chance to fix the unfixable and to start all over again. It begins when you forgive yourself for all you've done wrong, and forgive others for all they've done to you. Your mistakes aren't mistakes anymore, they're just things that make you stronger.

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.