Meghan Daum Quotes

I have apologised to the police.

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

I have sinned against you, my Lord.

After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Now I am a private citizen, During the time of my government I have wielded almost absolute powers. I ask you to believe me that whatever wrongs I may have done have been the result of difficult conditions in which it was my lot to govern, and not the fruit of evil passions. I am ready to answer any accusations you wish to make against me. And if the wrongs I have done can be purged by my blood, then take of me the vengeance you will. Here is my breast!

In order to properly repent, he who has sinned against the public must make public reparation.

If the person does not feel guilt he is not in his own mind guilty and will not confess …. Confession in such a case can come only with duress.

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

I am determined to offer an apology with my death.

I was bad, but I was one of the kids that never got caught. If anyone ever knew I did something, it was because I told them. 'Cause I'm a really good liar, so I end up snitching on myself.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.