Henry B. Eyring Quotes

I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.

Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.

All of my favorite hymns are admissions of faults, and finding redemption even in those.

God cannot forgive a sinner who does not acknowledge his sin.

Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.